Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
20 December 21 December 22 December 23 December	Making some adjustments to “The Lambdon Wager” to render it more submittable. More preliminary work for that stupid idea I mentioned last week.	Submitted! Appropriately tiny progess.	OMAS Arte Italiana Moonman M2  Pelikan 140 Platinum PKB-3000	Krishna Pakeezah Diamine Writer’s Blood Pelikan Blue-black  Herbin Poussière de Lune

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Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
6 December 7 December 8 December 9 December	Opening a campaign which will culminate in a Kickstarter campaign… and ideally somewhat thereafter a short story collection.	The journey of ten thousand stadia begins with a few hesitant and uncertain steps. And what could be sweat or tears. Hard to tell.	Sheaffer Saratoga TM Snorkel Pelikan 140 OMAS Arte Italiana Parker 65	Skrip Jet Black Pelikan Blue-black  Krishna Pakeezah Quink Permanent Turquoise

If anyone out there is shouting “What the hell are you thinking?!” they may rest assured that I can’t hear them over the screeching of my own internal critics. Updates as they develop… which given the careful approach to this unknown country I’m adopting, will probably not begin until Mid-January.

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
12 April 13 April 14 April 15 April	“Willful Murder” (working title) More of that faffing I mentioned last week.	4 manuscript pages. See below.	Pelikan 140 Retro 51 Tornado Parker 65 Sailor Pocket Pen	Monteverde Malibu Blue Krishna Pakeezah Herbin Poussière de Lune Jentle blue-black

When vanity-googling some year back, I discovered that I had an entry in the Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base. After being momentarily surprised that there was such a creature, I allowed myself a warm glow of imagined immortality– evidence of my presence which offered to outlast me (modern post-humanist thinking in the utopian spectrum notwithstanding).

Later, I found it had been updated to show my appearance on Pseudopod.

Later still… nothing. No updates. Because it relies on public effort, and is (or was) a little mysterious in how to do entries.

Last week, the ISFDB came up in online conversation, and I decided it was time to take the bull by the figurative horns (unless you are an agile Minoan, avoid doing this literally), and discovered that either it has become easier to add entries since I last looked at it, or I’m substantially more smartlier. Now not quite all of my published work is documented there. Along with a bunch of other folks, because it’s magazines and anthologies. Have a look, if you like, but be warned– there’s a picture of some kind of skunk-ape on the page. Very alarming.

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
5 April 6 April 7 April 8 April	“Willful Murder” (working title) Yesterday’s goof. Some faffing of a writerly sort.	4 manuscript pages. Pen Content?! Expanding my online presence slightly, in a way which will only slowly become evident.	Moonman M2  Pelikan M600 PenBBS 487 Retro 51 Tornado	Diamine Sargasso Sea Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire Herbin Lie de Thé Krishna Pakeezah

 

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
29 March 30 March 31 March 1 April	“Willful Murder” (working title)	7 manuscript pages.	PenBBS 487 Retro 51 Tornado Parker 65 Pelikan M600	Herbin Lie de Thé Krishna Pakeezah Herbin Poussière de Lune Noodler’s Dumas Tulipe Noire

It’s April and I’m a fool, so today’s my day to shine! A whole week of gentle but unstrained new writing! I might attribute it to the change in the weather, but for the shrieking blizzard we had on Tuesday. The change of sunlight’s angle, maybe.

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

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.

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…

Looking for a Way Out?

As COVID persists and we all get increasingly itchy from being kept in close contact with our loved ones, and as in certain jurisdictions the roll out of vaccine suggests full vaccination sometime in the next decade (there is a reason I call the head of the party currently in charge of my corner of the world Homer Flintstone), we might begin wondering about hobbies with application to real life.

I suppose I should say “Don’t try this at home”

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

Useful (?) Hints

This week’s film is a longish and highly specific public service announcement.

Sure, it’s probably not going to happen to you, but I’ll bet you’ve spent a few minutes in the past year considering your response to brain-hungry zombies shambling through the streets.

Today’s pen: Pelikan M600
Today’s ink: Krishna Pakeezah