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

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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.

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
26 July 27 July 28 July 29 July	Second draft of “Anne’s Big Day”.	1057 typed words (that’s rather more like it!).	TWSBI Diamond 580 ALR Mabie, Todd & Co Blackbird Parker Senior Duofold Platinum PKB-3000	TWSBI Royal Purple Jentle blue-black Diamine Honey Burst Edelstein Topaz

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
17 May 18 May 19 May 20 May	The decreasingly over-ambitious edit on “Legion of Candles”.	16 of 19 pages covered in red ink, so almost ready to hit the keyboard.	OMAS Arte Italiana Pilot Vanishing Point Sheaffer Imperial Triumph Pelikan 140	Diamine Honey Burst Namiki Black TWSBI Royal Purple Monteverde Malibu Blue

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
10 May 11 May 12 May 13 May	A story best thought of as carb cleaner for my writing engine. A probably over-ambitious edit on “Legion of Candles”.	Nine pages! Needs to be under 5000 by month end, currently… 6008. *gulp*	PenBBS 500 Pelikan 140 Pilot Vanishing Point OMAS Arte Italiana	TWSBI Blue Monteverde Malibu Blue Namiki Black† Diamine Honey Burst

Yes, indeed; production! I won’t tempt fate by proclaiming myself cured, especially with a story I don’t expect to ever see the light of day, but there’s a glimmer of optimism to be seen.

†You won’t actually find this on the linked page (yet) but… I mean, it’s black ink. One is very like another.

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
3 May 4 May 5 May 6 May	A very little work on the website	Most of the stuff I’ve been saying I’d update.	OMAS Arte Italiana Sheaffer Balance Craftsman PenBBS 500 Sailor Pocket Pen	Diamine Honey Burst Diamine Writer’s Blood TWSBI Blue Jentle blue-black

Baby’s First Media!

For this week’s Friday Film, I’m presenting some stuff I made myself!

Relax. They’re short.

The first is, as it says on the tin, just me messing around in the Vimeo toybox. I have my son’s permission to use his image, by the way. I cannot say the same for J.G. Diefenbaker, but as he’s a public figure and dead, I don’t care. For all I know, the thing he’s signing is the cancellation of the Avro Arrow, one of several things I don’t like him for.

The other thing is a Public Service piece, showing how to work the mechanism on the Wing Sung 618, and it will appear soon (ideally by next Monday, if I don’t get dazzled by other things that want attention) on a page for that pen on my site, along with some extra explanatory text.

Once you know the trick, it’s very nearly a really good filler. If I can figure a good way of fixing the ring in place, it will be a really good filler.

Today’s pen: Sailor Pocket Pen
Today’s ink: Jentle blue-black

Day	What	How Much	Pen	Ink
26 April 27 April 28 April 29 April	“Willful Murder” (working title). Something I’ll present tomorrow	4 manuscript pages (again?!). Simultaneously more and less effort that you’d think.	PenBBS 500† Pelikan 140 OMAS Arte Italiana Sheaffer Balance Craftsman	TWSBI Blue Monteverde Malibu Blue† Diamine Honey Burst† Diamine Writer’s Blood†

† So, clearly I didn’t get any updates on the site on the weekend. I got distracted by the possibilities of…

OK, it’s a little circuitous. My wife acts, and since the provincial government chased film production out of the province a few years ago, she’s been concentrating on the stage. This outlet to her creativity was somewhat stifled by the current plague, since live theatre is exactly the sort of thing the phrase “super-spreader” was invented for.

The theatre has decided to push on with the new season, though, and my wife has been cast in a leading role. How this? They’re presenting Sorry, Wrong Number in its original format– a radio play. I will, of course, offer a link when the play goes public; the “no public gatherings” command has been turned into a disadvantage, as local theatre goes online and global.

I’ve been on the fence about getting a (somewhat) decent microphone, and this has pushed me over the edge. Our Yeti Snowball arrived this week… but that’s just the catalyst. Since I’m having trouble wringing words out of my head, I’m spreading out into other media.

…and I’ll roll some of that out tomorrow.