Cake Time!

I must be quick, since I spent time over at my writing establishment to engage in some horn-blowing– I have a new publication, and to lay a delightful cherry on top, my name is on the cover!

If you want to have a look, I’ll warn you that it’s not a free publication (but it’s very reasonably priced!).

I may cook myself this cake as a way of celebrating…

Today’s pen: Retro 51 Tornado
Today’s ink: Krishna Pakeezah

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Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March	Forward movement on the pen site, at least.	Enough for getting on.	Lamy 2000 Pelikan M600 Moonman M2 (no spectacle of self-destruction– sorry, ghouls) PenBBS 487	Edelstein Olivine Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire Diamine Sargasso Sea Herbin Lie de Thé

 

Literary Theory

Oh, yeah. It’s a whole study session for the Friday films. Rest assured that there’s not Lovecraft apologetics here, either– our presenter is not afraid to call a insulated xenophobe exactly that. It’s just an excellent extended consideration of cosmic horror, using the work of the uncomfortable poster-child of the genre.

As a bonus– a cool cat!

Today’s pen: Pelikan M600
Today’s ink: Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
15 March 16 March 17 March 18 March	Still blocked.	Damn it.	Moonman M2 (if I don’t get a page finished for this thing by next week, I’ll eat it– live on Twitch!) Lamy 2000 Pilot 78G (green!) Retro 51 Tornado	Diamine Sargasso Sea Edelstein Olivine Herbin Vert Atlantide (also not on the site yet) Krishna Pakeezah

The Pilot appears to be turning into my standard St. Patrick’s Day pen. I used it this time because I wanted a broad point to show off the glimmer in the ink. In this, I was disappointed– there’s no sign of any metallic element in anything I wrote that day. I hope the wee folk weren’t offended.

Happiness

I don’t have anything profound to offer this week. The film below isn’t what I was originally going to offer in this slot, but…

I’ve just heard that by dawn of St. Patrick’s day, both my parents will have had their initial jab of the COVID vaccine. No idea which, but definitely one of the two-stage entries. And what better way to express the joy this news bring that with a tumble of kittens developing their murdering skills?

I’m also going to hint at another source of contentment, appearing later this month…

That’s probably too vague… so I’ll drop a suggestive preliminary link, too.

Today’s pen: Lamy 2000
Today’s ink: Edelstein Olivine

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
8 March 9 March 10 March 11 March	Repolishing and resubmitting a couple of things. Not getting the Moonman pages on my site finished	Nothing as grand as last week’s transformation. See below.	Retro 51 Tornado Pelikan M600 Moonman M2 (Nog steeds een enkele verdomd foto!) PenBBS 487	Krishna Pakeezah Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire Diamine Sargasso Sea Herbin Lie de Thé

The plan was to get that bit of site updating sorted out today. The reality was the gentle, silent death of our wifi router demanding a run to somewhere a replacement could be got. Fortunately, the amazingly elderly (it’s thirteen years old) Apple Airport the dead router replaced is still able to toss packets about, so Son’s online classes aren’t mysteriously cancelled.

I hope. I left the house before anyone else was up (bar one cat), so I don’t know if Wife has made sense of the hasty scribble I left by way of explanation. Maybe I should check…

Anchors A-Trip! Away? Aweigh?

Before today’s films, a quick thought about today’s pen. I had a look at this record, and I’m slightly startled to see that the pen in my pocket is starting on its third month in rotation. It’s getting close to half-way empty. That’s a lot of ink.

Today’s films pursue my interest in olden-timey ship stuff (a purely academic interest– I like to think about it, but I know it would be pure misery to engage in).

I’d had a vague idea of all of the above previously, but… well, I had not pictured the complexity of the tiller rope. Fascinating!

Today’s pen: PenBBS 487
Today’s ink: Herbin Lie de Thé

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
1 March 2 March 3 March 4 March	Consulting on someone else’s creative writing. Reworking the end of “Until Regrets Take the Place of Dreams” following a positive rejection note after short-listing.	Three pages, ten thousand suggestions. LISTEN TO EDITORS, KIDS	Lamy 2000 Moonman M2 (still just a picture) Retro 51 Tornado Pelikan M600	Edelstein Olivine Diamine Sargasso Sea Krishna Pakeezah Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire

This week may not have been the full fires of creation flowing through the grooves of my brain, but it was the closest to that I’ve been in a while. This is encouraging.