ink-geek!

[truepenny]

About 50% of my writing is done by hand, and done with a fountain pen. Consequently, fountain pen ink is a matter of great and perhaps excessive importance in my small and easily-distracted mind. (ooh, shiny thing!)

One of Mirrorthaw's aunts, who is a calligrapher and understands these things, listened with patience and sympathy at Christmas as I bemoaned the discontinuation of Sheaffer's Burgundy and Parker Penman's Ruby and my inability to find an ink that has the sort of dried-blood look I want. And now she has given me a bottle of Private Reserve's new Black Cherry ink, and it is gorgeous. It looks even more like dried blood than the Parker Penman Ruby did. And it writes well.

I am v. v. pleased.

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[truepenny.livejournal.com]

One thing I particularly like about this Black Cherry is that it's dark. I have driven myself, my loved ones, and random passersby crazy for years because I cannot stand to write with a pen that doesn't produce DARK ink. Color I'm relatively indifferent to (although I love this dark red-brown--it's so cool), but it's got to be dark, or I end up pressing harder and harder and eventually all of my paper looks like I've been doing grave rubbings or something. I can't stand using black, because it fades out to gray as the pen runs out of ink (and obviously using gray ink is a non-starter). So this beautiful dark ink has just totally made my day--possibly my week.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. So very thoughtful of your aunt-in-law. I would very much like to see it in action when I see you next week. I'd like to see the ink color and then watch a line of writing dry. Appease my fetishistic impulse?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, are you coming up here before/after VividCon? Cool.

And, yes, of course. You be thinking about what sentence you want me to write. :)

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

oOooooooooOOOOOOooo fountain pens...

I lust after fountain pens. Levenger catalogs are like porn for me.

Just informed husband that all I want for Christmas is a really good fountain pen, then sent him flurry of internet links re: same.

Do you specifically creative-write or research-write using fountain pen, or do you just use it whenever?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I use my fountain pen for everything, unless it's the sort of thing that requires a ballpoint for some reason.

And you're so right. Levenger's (http://www.levenger.com/) IS porn.

My pen's a Sheaffer (http://www.sheaffer.com/) Legacy (http://www.penlovers.com/stylophiles/4oct01/11pfm.htm) which I got a ridiculously large discount on because the store was trying to clear out their stock after the advent of the Legacy 2 (http://www.sheaffer.com/pens/legacy2.shtml). I adore it. It's very heavy and very sturdy, and in one year and eleven notebooks of very hard use, I haven't managed to break it; it even survived being dropped on the floor nib-down, although it took my husband's greater hand-strength to get the nib realigned.

And it's improved the look of my handwriting, too.

eeeeee!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

*Sigh*

I need a new fountain pen. I seem to have somehow murdered all of them since I moved to Nevada.

Perhaps I will buy one in Toronto, because I miss writing-by-hand being a pleasure, and I used fountain pens for something like fifteen years.

Re: eeeeee!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Las Vegas is bad for you. It's destroying your fountain pens.

I'll be an enthusiastic cheering section for you getting a new fountain pen. It certainly makes a dramatic difference for me.

(And if I were able to go to Torcon, we could go droolingshopping together. :( )

Re: eeeeee!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Las Vegas is the home of all badness. :-P Overall.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Pretty.