If you know our PA, you can access her secret stash of stationery. It’s an Aladdin’s cave: plush pads, velvety covered notebooks, Post-Its, the very best pens.
I no longer scratch with a biro - instead, I have a disposable fountain pen. You wouldn’t know such things existed, unless you knew our PA.
Such a difference; words curve on the page where once they were jagged, ink shines in beautiful trails. And the doodles! I make such gorgeous doodles now.
My pages, so pretty and so meaningless, are a salutary lesson. Owning a good gun doesn’t make you a great shot.
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"ink shines in beautiful trails."
I love this bit - I can so picture it.
I tend to buy quality paper and top of the line pens but can't bare to put my inconsequential thoughts or stories on them.
You, on the other hand, should frame yours.
A grand talent deserves a fitting stage.
I wish I could tell a story in so few words!
I love the last line, it could apply in so many different areas of life.
Your 100 word teasers are exquisite
BUT
They are over too damned soon. I need more, more, more Mr. London Street.
Thanks Jenn! I'm really enjoying the challenge of enough of these 100 words landing with a reader.
Nari - That is grand praise, thank you very much. I recently bought a really nice fountain pen, and I am still getting used to the idea that I ought to be using it for similar reasons.
Sarah Mac - It's well worth trying. It's an interesting discipline, makes you think hard about the words you use and whether they're pulling their weight.
Lo - That's why I am putting a new one up every single day. What do you want, blood?
Disposable fountain pens! Who knew?
In my junior school one year our parents were forced to buy us (non-disposable) fountain pens along with calligraphy nib sets and we were taught basic calligraphy skills.
It's AMAZING how much mess one 8 year old Kavey can make with a fountain pen and ink cartridges.
You take pretty good aim with that gun of yours! Like Jenn, above, 'ink shines in beautiful trails' really does have a fitting sparkling quality to it.
Do hope these posts are bringing a lot of traffic to the site. I think these kind of sustained 'events' are really important for concentrating a focus from your readers and keeping them coming back, and a great opportunity for you to push the site day after day. I hope you think to make such events a repeating thing.
The best pens in the world are made in Japan. Truth.
There's nothing quite like a good pen. As you say, it mightn't improve your writing or your doodling but makes you want to keep going. And that's something.
Great job - great analogy. It was hard to beat the first one I read today though.
Kavey - Thanks for commenting! In my school, once your handwriting was good enough they took away your pencil and gave you a Berol Notewriter (remember them?) I only got one right at the end, because everyone else in my class had been writing with a pen for weeks and they were worried I'd feel left behind.
Matt - It's been an interesting week, definitely more visitors which I really appreciate. I know my longer posts can feel like a slog for many and everybody's busy. I may well do something like this again.
Maria - Not sure I agree. Pilots and Sailors are both good, but I think German fountain pens also have a lot to recommend them. Anyway, Japanese nibs are often on the narrow side.
Tennyson - I agree, and of course truly great fountain pens are also very beautiful objects.
Jennie - Thank goodness it isn't a contest, eh?
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