mnmlscholar 6/27/23 mnmlscholar 6/27/23

One more for the community’s exploration of #21PenQuestions

This week, I’m sharing my twenty-one reflections on how I sit with my pens and inks and stationery. How I think about sharing and using my desk bound-comrades. This week: my # 21PenQuestions.

mnmlscholar 6/17/23 mnmlscholar 6/17/23

Finding the purposeful center of writing in analog, a mnml digest

Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On purpose. What is the point of what I work on, of how I work on it, and of the tools I choose to work on it with?

mnmlscholar 6/15/23 mnmlscholar 6/15/23

Welcoming summer with a custom and novel currently inked

I broke down my recent accumulation of Jinhao 82s into their parts. I mixed pieces and matched parts to craft two fully personalized Jinhao 82s. The process of building my own pens was immensely gratifying. As a healthy hobby should be.

mnmlscholar 6/13/23 mnmlscholar 6/13/23

Three kind angles on living for ink maximalism

I feel guilty cleaning out a pen that still has ink in it. The value of ink maximalism abounds in our shared online spaces. That intention to squeeze every ml of value out of the expensive colored liquids we fill our pens with seems to resonate with a lot of people.

I’m thinking philosophically as I rethink my mostly-full currently inked for next week. When is a pen empty?