Indiana Jones and the Very Sore Knuckles

I’ll probably start to trail off on things inspired by politics in another country soon, but a friend posted this on Facebook…

…and that got me thinking of a possible thing to look for as this week’s film.  Sure enough, the internet provides.

There’s something to remember, gang– they will, sometimes, punch back.  Keep your guard up, and don’t let them rest.

Today’s pen: Sheaffer Targa
Today’s ink: Waterman blue-black

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This Week’s Pens	Inks	How Much Novel Written
Waterman Executive Sailor 102 Parker Senior Duofold Pelikan New Classic	Waterman Florida Blue Herbin Bleu Nuit Diamine Marine Pelikan Brilliant Brown	18 manuscript pages.

That’s an alarmingly low page-count for this week, which is down to an unexpected office celebratory lunch.  Free lunch, yes, but not only did it cost me a day’s efforts, it made me rather ill so yesterday was not very productive either.  Boo.

However, if my page/word ratios are right, I’m now above 25,000 words, or 100 typed pages.  For something that only gets poked at over lunch-hours, that’s coming along reasonably well.

Spine-tingling Writing!

As a gentle distraction from the flaming horror of what’s happening in Washington DC today, here’s four nice people showing how letter-writing in a group setting can look.  International Correspondence Writing Month is just around the corner, after all, and those with the free time to pursue it should start loosening up their joints.

Today’s pen: Pelikan New Classic
Today’s ink: Pelikan Brilliant Brown

This Week’s Pens	Inks	How Much Novel Written
Sheaffer Targa Parker Senior Duofold Waterman Executive Sailor 102	Waterman blue-black Diamine Marine Waterman Florida Blue Herbin Bleu Nuit	22 manuscript pages.

A joyful… more or less… realization on Tuesday, that the point-of-view of the novel wasn’t quite where it should be.  This will make extra work on the second draft (thus “or less”), but it also mean some elements that have been a drag-inducing burden to the narrative can be more easily handled and I should be able to skip along a little more briskly henceforth.

I’m also faced with a couple of other projects that might distract me from this hoped-for brisk skipping; there’s a call from weird stories which also examine the effects of colonization in the Victorian era, and my wife is urging me to convert something to a screenplay for a local competition.  Egad.

6 (More) Reasons Why You Should Write With a Fountain Pen

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Kill It With Fire!

Alas, not an option for either of my current problems.  Fire applied to the novel will only make more work for me unless it’s part of an admission of abject failure… which frankly on Monday was an enticing path but which I’ve gotten over since.  The novel is less of a problem than a challenge, anyway, and setting fire to a challenge is weak.

The other current problem is winter.  If I had enough fire to deal with it and its week of -30C mornings, I would have entirely different and more pressing problems (and so would you, however far from me you are).  However, after a week of that sort of unpleasantly bracing starts to the day, I am happy to watch some people take chainsaws to winter, or at least some of its manifestations.

Today’s pen: Sailor 102
Today’s ink: Herbin Bleu Nuit

This Week’s Pens	Inks	How Much Novel Written
Sailor 102 Pelikan M30 Sheaffer Targa Parker Senior Duofold	Herbin Bleu Nuit Diamine Evergreen Waterman blue-black Diamine Marine	26 manuscript pages.

Optimism and Progress!

This may well be a repeat performance, and I find I don’t particularly care.  The first Friday of the new year gets a forward-looking and hopeful film, even if I had to dredge 1955 to get it.

While I’m urging sparkly-eyed hope, I’ll also recommend a look at something my father’s homeland is nurturing.  Hopeful futurism which is not past its best-before date!

Today’s pen: Sheaffer Targa
Today’s ink: Waterman blue-black

This Week’s Pens	Inks	How Much Novel Written
Parker Senior Duofold Sheaffer Snorkel Valiant Sailor 102 Pelikan M30	Diamine Marine Diamine Denim Herbin Bleu Nuit Diamine Evergreen	20 manuscript pages.

A minor disaster has occurred for me on the mechanical side of the writing. I managed to jostle my book at the end at yesterday’s writing session, causing a Rube Goldberg cascade which threw my fiction pen to the floor.  This was not the Sailor, but my well-loved Touchdown Valiant, and it now has a small crack opened up at the rear of the barrel which defeats filling.  I’ll take it away for repairs, but I think I’ll rotate something else in so I don’t feel like I have to rush the repaired pen back into service before the solvent-weld has a chance to knit properly.  Probably a slightly older Sovereign II, which has very similar writing properties.  I am somewhat low in my spirits about this accident, though– I love my pens nearly like children, and to have injured one through my own clumsiness stings.