Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
11 April 12 April 13 April 14 April	Faffing about with my projected self-publishing foolishness.	A vast and endless stream, apparently	Montblanc 32 PenBBS 487 Pelikan M600 Pelikan 140	Montblanc Racing Green TWSBI Royal Purple Diamine Syrah Herbin Bleu Calanque

“Faffing about with my projected self-publishing foolishness” is, it appears, going to be the default setting for a while. Illustrations are being illustrated. I’ve set up a writer account on Kindle, Apple and a couple of others. I’m looking at local sourcing for the printing of physical copies.

So… the next few updates are likely to be down to three columns, just to avoid repetetive redundancy reiteration.

Also– day off tomorrow, and I need to relax, so there’s probably no film appearing after this.

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Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
4 April 5 April 6 April 7 April	Faffing about with my projected self-publishing foolishness.	Nothing conclusive, of course.	Pelikan 140 Montblanc 32 Waterman Master PenBBS 487	Herbin Bleu Calanque Montblanc Racing Green Diamine Honey Burst TWSBI Royal Purple

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
28 March 29 March 30 March 31 March	Final draft of “Golden Hour”. A little relaxation.	A final pass for stupid typos, and submitted. 28th was the deadline!. Brain needs rest.	Pelikan M600 Waterman Master Montblanc 32 Sheaffer Imperial Triumph	Diamine Syrah Diamine Honey Burst Montblanc Racing Green Pelikan blue-black

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
23 August 24 August 25 August 26 August	Third draft of “Anne’s Big Day”. Some submissions.	All polished up and just sort of 3000 words. Funnily enough, not “Anne’s Big Day”.	Montblanc 32 Parker Senior Duofold Pelikan M600† Pelikan P1†	Montblanc Racing Green Diamine Honey Burst Pelikan blue-black‡ TWSBI Blue-black

† Two Pelikans in one week? I really wanted to match this pen and ink, and as the maker of my rules, I can amend them.

‡ I’ll be offering some thoughts about this next week.

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
16 August 17 August 18 August 19 August	Submissions and a Sask Writers Guild meeting.	Bugger-all writing, and I was late for the meeting.	TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Parker Senior Duofold Eversharp Skyline Montblanc 32	TWSBI Royal Purple Diamine Honey Burst Monteverde Malibu Blue  Montblanc Racing Green

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
9 August 10 August 11 August 12 August	Second draft of “Anne’s Big Day”.	Finished, and just under 3000 words.	Pelikan P1 Montblanc 32 Parker Senior Duofold TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR	TWSBI Blue-black Montblanc Racing Green Diamine Honey Burst TWSBI Royal Purple

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August	Civic Holiday Day. Pinned on the phone by a needy co-worker seeking advice on a duty. Second draft of “Anne’s Big Day”.	About a dozen films reformatted (see last entry). The half the damn lunch-hour. Just 538 typed words.	TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Parker Senior Duofold Montblanc 32 Pelikan P1	TWSBI Royal Purple Diamine Honey Burst Montblanc Racing Green TWSBI Blue-black†

† I get to exercise my signing authority today at the Sask. Writers Guild (did I mention I am, for the moment, a director?) so in addition to a pen with a distinctive point, I wanted to use an indelible ink; this one is both permanent and magnificently well-behaved.

The Clothes Make the Ma…AAAAH!

I have recently begun (because I am still a bit of a Luddite and chronically underfunded) the process of moving the vast crowd of films my wife and I own onto an external hard-drive thousands of times more capacious than the brain of Johnny Mnemonic, so that we may watch them on the big TV in the living room without having to walk to shelf to DVD player and back to chair like we’re cavemen. Oh, no, we’re joining the world of… the current decade, more or less, using the home computer to send files to a phone which then transmits them to a doodad plugged into our television. SIMPLE!

This pursuit has given a couple of subsidiary enjoyments. The most frequent is the feeling of virtuous rectitude each time I get to the message from my DVD-to-file software telling me I have to affirm that the file is only for non-commercial home use, because that’s exactly what I’m at.

The other is being reminded of the existence of some of the stuff in our collection. Some, like Fiend Without a Face, are extremely subjective sources of enjoyment. Others are generally held up as classics by people qualified to make that kind of pronouncement.

For example, one is always well repaid for a re-watching of Alien.

Today’s pen: Montblanc 32
Today’s ink: Montblanc Racing Green

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
19 July 20 July 21 July 22 July	Second draft of “Anne’s Big Day”.	590 typed words.	Platinum PKB-3000 Montblanc 32 TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Mabie, Todd & Co Blackbird	Edelstein Topaz Montblanc Racing Green TWSBI Royal Purple Jentle blue-black

 

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
15 June 16 June 17 June 18 June	Bloody nothing on Monday First draft of “Memorial Garden”	10 manuscript pages.	Montblanc 32 Jinhao 159 Waterman Executive Pelikan th.INK	Diamine Bilberry Diamine Syrah Herbin Lie de Thé Herbin Poussière de Lune

I think henceforth we might take it was given that Monday’s are unproductive, thanks to the thing I mentioned at the end of last month. It wasn’t an issue last week because, as it was a new thing, I forgot about it entirely until the next day. For the foreseeable future, though, Mondays are going to be opposed to writing.