Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
22 November 23 November 24 November 26 November	“Hobb’s Landing”. Preliminary Christmas Shopping	Squeezing words from a stone. [Homer Simpson noise of remembered trauma]	TWSBI Classic Retro 51 Tornado Pelikan 140 Faber-Castell e-motion	Edelstein Olivine Skrip Black Pelikan Blue-black  Herbin Éclat de Saphir

I’ve just realized that a couple of my published stories are past their exclusivity dates and in anthologies that are not easily accessed online. Stand by for action on the other site!

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Dr. Manhattan’s Other Job

Hey, said YouTube to me recently. You want to see someone that fixes old luxury items?

“That’s not me fixing a pen… right?” I became nervous that I was creating content somnambulistically.

Oh, no. You’re nothing like this ambitious.

I mean, I’d like to do that, but the stuff I do that strikes me as fiddly and wee is the upper end of the fiddly-wee spectrum in that video. Also, how the dickens does one remember which bit goes where?

Today’s pen: Retro 51 Tornado
Today’s ink: Skrip Black

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
8 November 9 November 10 November 11 November	“Hobb’s Landing”. Remembrance.	Done! Sorta! Except for building the ending from its current kit form of mostly coherent points. Appropriate.	TWSBI Classic Retro 51 Tornado Parker Duofold Pelikan Stola III	Edelstein Olivine Skrip Black Diamine Honey Burst Pelikan Royal Blue

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
1 November 2 November 3 November 4 November	Endless small chores.	Not a word of writing, damn it.	Parker Duofold Faber-Castell e-motion  Retro 51 Tornado TWSBI Classic	Diamine Honey Burst Herbin Éclat de Saphir Skrip Black Edelstein Olivine

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
25 October 26 October 27 October 28 October	First draft of “Unintended Consequences” (working title). Second draft of same.	More or less settled at 3220 words. SO MANY REVISIONS NEEDED!	TWSBI Classic Pelikan Stola III Cross Century II Medalist Retro 51 Tornado	Edelstein Olivine Pelikan Royal Blue Herbin Violet Penseé Skrip Black

I’m going to have to really scramble to get that story onto my literary front if I’m going to make good on a plan, not previously spoken, to offer it as a Hallowe’en treat on the Friday ahead of The Great Day.

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.