4 novels. 4 first drafts. 5 years.

Our own, Harry C. Marks shows off quite an accomplishment.

Pen & Paper Expt 1

For the sake of art.

Celebrating Octavia Butler

This year is the 10th anniversary of the great science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s untimely death; next year marks what would have been her 70th birthday.

Quite the self-affirmation.

How I got a CS degree with pen and paper (and why I’m doing it again) – Forrest Brazeal

As my stack of notebooks soared, so did my grades. Soon I was dragging extra paper into every class, including computer labs where my notebooks were the only dead trees anywhere in sight – leading to the slightly goofy spectacle of a computer science major scribbling down Java or C code snippets with a #2 pencil.

Just because you major in Computer Science doesn’t mean you need a computer for everything.

The Power of Daily Writing in a Journal

Charley Kempthorne estimates his journal is about 10 million words long. He says daily writing helps him to be happier and healthier.

This is a wonderful piece. He mostly does his thing digitally but he prints it out on paper and compiles it into volumes after.

This article is behind the WSJ paywall but, I saved it to Instapaper and was able to read the whole thing from there. Well worth the time spent.

Squire – Baron Fig

Our friends at Baron Fig are now excepting pre-orders for their new pen, The Squire. As with everything they do, it looks thoughtfully designed and made to last.

Bic Cristal Ballpoint Pen Review — Pen Addict

For a blog that reviews pens you would have thought I would have reviewed one of the most famous pens in the world by now. But I hadn’t, despite many, many calls to do so. Why has it taken so long for me to review the Bic Cristal ballpoint pen? I have no idea.

A reminder that you don’t need fancy, you just need functional.