Throwing shade
Choosing a slate of pens and inks that fit the kinds of work I’m taking on this week proved a puzzle. My work writing is primarily quick notes (jottings) and lesson plans. My personal writing is primarily slow writing: commonplace reading notes and journaling. This week’s currently inked pens need to accommodate both extremes.
Permutations of good pen and ink pairings, and really bad eggs
My favorite part of working in analog – or living within a hobby like stationery – is greeting new experiences. Each new ink you buy offers a novel color option, and a new writing experience with every pen you put it in. Every new pen offers a unique writing experience with each of the inks in your collection.
Add to pen and ink combinations your paper choices. And nib sizes. Permutations of new experiences – and wonderful discoveries.
A brown ink with delusions of green
The weather turns humid and rainy this week. Such a turn calls for a warmer color palette.
Six inks live in pens this week. Agate, Lamy’s warm-toned grey ink, remains my primary writing ink. Two blues, one showy with sheen and another subdued cobalt. One dark green and one subdued green mirror my pairing of blues. And then there’s Vaikhari, which lives as a warm brown ink with delusions of being a green ink.
A journal entry a day keeps the doldrums away
Most weeks, pen meets paper in my personal journal three or four times. I wrote an entry every night this week. Six entries is double my usual personal writing.
I’ve journaled regularly for three years. Over that time, I’ve fallen into a system of structuring my entries.