What do you write?
I often have an "emotional need" to use a fountain pen, but no real need to write anything in particular.
Do you ever find yourself in a similar situation, wanting to write but having no particular "assignment?"
In those situations, what do you do? What ends up being applied to paper?
Sometimes I just make little squiggles, regarding the deposition of ink onto paper through a loupe... and then they do up the sleeves on the coat and take me back to my room.
When I'm in a slightly less obsessive mood, the journal suffices.
I have numerous things that I do - I keep a journal for random doodles, writings, and penmanship practice. Inside it you will find song lyrics, poems, quotations, and what seems like a metric ton of abecedarian sentences ("The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." or my favorite, "The exiled queen, justly moved, celebrated with a dazzling fireworks display.") copied over and over again. There are also notes to myself, funny stories from my day, or random things I've seen or heard throughout the day. I've also started trying to learn a nice Italic script, so I will practice that as well.
With my last Goulet Pens purchase (no affiliation, just a happy customer), I threw in a bunch of ink samples, and this gives me an excuse to try them all out without really having a reason or purpose for inking up the pen.
(side note - please skip me for the giveaway, I'm responding because I thought this was an interesting topic!)
It's a little bit strange but I write whatever words I hear on TV, not full sentences but, since I cannot write fast enough, a mix of several sentences put together. I often end up with a weird mash-up of commercial slogans intertwined with film dialog.
For nearly two decades, for people like you, the time to call is now. If your credit card dept is your guns. She could tolerate mom's law and order, tomorrow at four, on news channel four. We're gonna lay down for you. Get out! get out! Don't shoot. I am hungry for your love, baby.
I practice my figure-eight squiggles that you typically see people do when testing a pen. At some point I will do that in a pen store or at a show, and I want perfect squiggles. I also experiment with flourishes, flourons, dingbats, or whatever you call those little design things someone might do on a card or at the bottom of a letter. I tend to do curvy arrows and things, too. So basically, I doodle.
I keep a book of ideas I've not had time to mess with, and draw or write something from that.
Funny quotes and one liners from stand up comedy
Meaningful quotes
Letters to family (or friends who know I like pens) that just say boring stuff... Sitting in cafe trying out a new ink. Its...
I sometimes write dialog from tv too.
Last edited by Struthious; 12-21-2011 at 06:38 AM.
Given that I get bored easily, a mix of things: the alphabet, the names of the pen and ink I'm writing with, the standard pangrams like "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" (my favorite), and, much like Walter, overheard sentences if I'm somewhere with a TV or radio on or there are people speaking. If I want to really test out a pen, I might copy a poem or paragraph from a book, usually T.S. Eliot, Lewis Carroll or Herman Melville. If it's a pen with a flexible nib, I'll do some arcs to test the flex too.
And, unlike Lucasmines, I do want to be included in the giveaway!
Last edited by DET; 12-21-2011 at 11:50 AM.
"I don't know what to write, I don't know what to write" "blah blah blah"
I like using fountain pens to write checks. I like the looks I get, when I write a check in my best cursive script. One of these days, I'll write a check that looks like Thomas Jefferson wrote it. In the mean time, I practice writing one to a hundred whenever I get on a writing roll.
I write a letter.
Looking back through an old notebook, I notice that I'd tested one pen by writing a page of "All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy."
HEEEEEEERES JOHNNY! indeed
Letters to friends and my new pen pals. I send notes to my clients, which they love. I still take notes in meetings, correct documents by hand, and even draft some of my legal documents first by hand. I think better with my pens, than with some keyboard.
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I have a couple 2.3mm italics that I've made into real crisp italics. I love to go from a super-crisp-hairline-cross-stroke to BROAD-BRUSH-DOWN-STROKE!
Here's an example, and actually, this is not totally crisp. Probably between cursive and crisp.
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I do the overheard words from TV and conversations too. I like to try and do 20 minutes or so of stream-of-consciousness writing first thing in the morning. that's not for future consumption even, just sort of a clearing of the mind, kind of like emptying a tube of toothpaste in one fell swoop.
"All work and no play made Jack a dull boy" from my favorite scary movie.
That's a classic! It's been far too long since I've seen that movie.Originally Posted by winedoc
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Eric I have a few goto things to write whenever I have nothing else pressing. They include:
- A one-page summary of my day
- A page of exercises from the Write Now book
- A poem
- A Buddhist Sutra
- Interesting excerpts from whatever book I happen to be reading
--gordon
How about:
- my journal
- a story, sometimes short, sometimes surprisingly long
- my thoughts or even a short treatise on whatever subject keeps my mind occupied at the time
- dipping some of my pens in ink in unknown combinations and writing out their names in full and what I think about them
- and if all the above fail me, that bloody fox can jump over that ol' lazy dog in many variations.
My job also requires a fair amount of writing and you just can't always use a laptop or an iPad.
Cheers,
Peter
Last edited by peterpen53; 03-03-2012 at 08:52 AM.
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ALL of my school papers, tests, quizzes and notes I do in FP. ALWAYS. when my pen runs out of ink ( which doesn'nt happen unless I am using a c/c), I actually can barely write ledgibly---possibly a disadvantage of the the FP?
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