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changelingOMG NEIL WRITES LIKE I DO. This is how I was handwriting NaNo this year. No lie:
I'm writing my novel with two different fountain pens (a Lamy 2000, and a regular Lamy) filled with two different coloured inks (a greenish one and a reddish one), and I'm alternating pens each day, which means I can see at a glance how much writing I've actually done that day, or that week. More than five pages in the same colour of ink must have been a good day. The Lamy 2000 days are my favourites because the regular lamy, although a good pen for signing in, is less happy writing a novel, and handwriting like mine needs all the help it can get.
Except, y'know, it was in two Schaeffers, or similarly priced cheapish nice fountain pens, because I lose things and am also Not That Rich. I wrote in dried-blood red and green and purple. Red and green were better, because purple bleeds more over other pages when you drop the book in the bath.
*does the validated writer fangirl dance, which is complex, and so involves two European lace fans. And a black tutu with blood-red sequins.*
I'm writing my novel with two different fountain pens (a Lamy 2000, and a regular Lamy) filled with two different coloured inks (a greenish one and a reddish one), and I'm alternating pens each day, which means I can see at a glance how much writing I've actually done that day, or that week. More than five pages in the same colour of ink must have been a good day. The Lamy 2000 days are my favourites because the regular lamy, although a good pen for signing in, is less happy writing a novel, and handwriting like mine needs all the help it can get.
Except, y'know, it was in two Schaeffers, or similarly priced cheapish nice fountain pens, because I lose things and am also Not That Rich. I wrote in dried-blood red and green and purple. Red and green were better, because purple bleeds more over other pages when you drop the book in the bath.
*does the validated writer fangirl dance, which is complex, and so involves two European lace fans. And a black tutu with blood-red sequins.*
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Date: 2003-12-08 05:47 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-12-08 08:00 am (UTC)Second: I prefer my Jaguar carbon-fiber fountain pen to most other fountain pens I've used, save
It wouldn't hurt to buy some colored ink cartridges, though, and when I write just swap them by day. . .!
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:42 pm (UTC)I have a couple of good plain (and coincidentally identical) Parker fountain pens, and several bottles of coloured ink. I just used a different pen each day.
*awe*
Date: 2003-12-09 03:37 am (UTC)I am completely taken with your pen. It could rule nations.
(i'm really not trying to sound sarcastic here, I'm just slightlty pen obsessive.)
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Date: 2003-12-09 02:16 pm (UTC)I've been a pen snob for a while, I guess. Sometimes it's difficult to justify to someone why I would spend $17 on a pen even if it did last several years (going on 2 as of now) but I've always been able to rationalize it to myself. Perhaps a sad thing is that I've become such a fountain-pen lover that regular -- sometimes even moderately-expensive -- ballpoint pens feel like crude chisels compared to sharp razors. Ah, well, I enjoy my snobbery. :)
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Date: 2003-12-09 07:46 pm (UTC)AHAHAHAHA I WISH!
I've spent $50 on a pen a couple of times. My two Parkers that I have cost around $30 each, and they're pretty good for an arse-end of the scale pen.
And I agree about ballpoints. I can't use them. They hurt my hand and wrist.
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Date: 2003-12-09 09:29 pm (UTC)I would absolutely love to be able to purchase a high-end Mont Blanc or Dunhill-Namiki. Incidentally, one of Julie's professors owns the first pen in a Namiki series; neither Julie nor I knows how he came to possess it, since the first of each series is always given as a gift to the Queen of England.
I've seen auctions and sales of Mont Blanc pens that have gone for nearly five digits. I can't imagine writing with such a pen -- I imagine it would be the calligraphic version of driving a Ferrari. Given this analogy, my $17 pen doesn't represent more than a pre-owned Honda, but I still love it. It's the best I could (and can) reasonably afford given my broke-ass student's budget. Despite the relatively low cost, however, the pen belies its humble roots and writes like a dream -- at least, a dream compared to crappy Bics and Pilots. Also, I can carry it around and not worry *TOO* much if it touches anything; I'd feel terrible if an extremely expensive pen were scratched while in my care. It would be like defiling a work of functional art, y'know?
That's way too much of the waxing romantic about pens. Now, back to studying for me!
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Date: 2003-12-09 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-09 07:42 pm (UTC)I don' wanna be a doll!
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Date: 2003-12-09 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-11 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-11 09:53 am (UTC)*Pallas awws* Don't be afraid, lovey....
*mun gestures frantically behind his back for you to be afraid*
Damn Cs...always taking over. Bastards.
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Date: 2003-12-11 10:15 am (UTC)*is very, very afraid*
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Date: 2003-12-11 10:18 am (UTC)*mun grins* Smart girl. *cuddles on* He forgets you helped create him. Silly boy.
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Date: 2003-12-11 08:54 pm (UTC)*facepalms*
Date: 2003-12-09 04:18 pm (UTC)I have been known to drop books in the bath...