Sean Lovelace—
Does anyone write by pencil/pen? Why (or why not)?
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Yes. I don’t know why I prefer pencils, but I’ve been writing on a legal pad because I don’t have the internet on my legal pad. Also, screen fatigue.
pencils smell bad. when i was in first grade i was sent home because the room smelled too much like pencils and the smell made me think i had pencil shavings stuck in my eyeball.
Sharpie Magic Marker!
Paper Mate Sharpwriter 0.7mm mechanical w/ yellow barrel if I’m reading a book and want to steal nouns, or do some Jackson Mac Low shiz.
Otherwise, electronics.
i use a pencil and notebook when i’m anywhere other than my apartment
FP.
Lately Bexley.
Noodler’s.
El Lawrence watered 1:2.
perma, aesthetic, fancy,
affects me lexically.
but typewriter clack:
steady pace matching mind best.
I can barely sign my own name anymore. I used to write with any kind of black ink pen (can’t stomach blue ink) – notebooks full of scribbles – but those days seem to be gone for me. Also, when I first looked at this question I thought it had something to do with penicillen.
I too eschew blue,
Look at all those pantaloons, so deep and reckless!
One would only warily wave around similar trousers of verdure.
Black is at the other end, fake object, drab.
Slink into some wine, an olive, tan ink like teddybear!
Everything with measure.
I like #2 pencils. They’re so… organic.
I’m very big on technology, but I’m not excessively keen about using computers to write. For stories and scripts, I write on paper (whatever paper, whatever pen). It’s more portable, I guess. It also slows my mind down a little; I can get ahead of myself, otherwise.
For redrafting, though, I type it up, print it out, edit in red if red I have, type up the edits once I’m done, and so on. Sprawling scrolls of scrawls don’t tend to make for an easy editing process. Printed fonts’ compaction is best, there — at 50% scale, two to a page. That’s the panoramic view. Cursive by hand lenses macro on the words; it lets you focus on the immediate scene.
Actually, I often type up and print out in that way even at intervals throughout the initial draft. Helps to refresh my memory and put me back at the last sentence, especially if I’ve taken a couple of days off. I’ll continue writing by hand, but I need those views to the horizon. So, I guess mine is a mixed approach.
For shorter things, especially poems (and even sometimes for stories, if the whim takes me), I use my typewriter. It’s fun and clunky.
Yes. I don’t know why I prefer pencils, but I’ve been writing on a legal pad because I don’t have the internet on my legal pad. Also, screen fatigue.
pencils smell bad. when i was in first grade i was sent home because the room smelled too much like pencils and the smell made me think i had pencil shavings stuck in my eyeball.
Sharpie Magic Marker!
Paper Mate Sharpwriter 0.7mm mechanical w/ yellow barrel if I’m reading a book and want to steal nouns, or do some Jackson Mac Low shiz.
Otherwise, electronics.
i use a pencil and notebook when i’m anywhere other than my apartment
Glad somebody else gets me.
Shout out for Donald. Glad to see the tactile-brain-fingers thing as still happening. Click, click different than contentious scrawl. Contact. It’s just serotonin.
FP.
Lately Bexley.
Noodler’s.
El Lawrence watered 1:2.
perma, aesthetic, fancy,
affects me lexically.
but typewriter clack:
steady pace matching mind best.
I can barely sign my own name anymore. I used to write with any kind of black ink pen (can’t stomach blue ink) – notebooks full of scribbles – but those days seem to be gone for me. Also, when I first looked at this question I thought it had something to do with penicillen.
I too eschew blue,
Look at all those pantaloons, so deep and reckless!
One would only warily wave around similar trousers of verdure.
Black is at the other end, fake object, drab.
Slink into some wine, an olive, tan ink like teddybear!
Everything with measure.
I like #2 pencils. They’re so… organic.
I’m very big on technology, but I’m not excessively keen about using computers to write. For stories and scripts, I write on paper (whatever paper, whatever pen). It’s more portable, I guess. It also slows my mind down a little; I can get ahead of myself, otherwise.
For redrafting, though, I type it up, print it out, edit in red if red I have, type up the edits once I’m done, and so on. Sprawling scrolls of scrawls don’t tend to make for an easy editing process. Printed fonts’ compaction is best, there — at 50% scale, two to a page. That’s the panoramic view. Cursive by hand lenses macro on the words; it lets you focus on the immediate scene.
Actually, I often type up and print out in that way even at intervals throughout the initial draft. Helps to refresh my memory and put me back at the last sentence, especially if I’ve taken a couple of days off. I’ll continue writing by hand, but I need those views to the horizon. So, I guess mine is a mixed approach.
For shorter things, especially poems (and even sometimes for stories, if the whim takes me), I use my typewriter. It’s fun and clunky.
I like pen and paper for first drafts because it discourages wordsmithing.
Glad somebody else gets me.
Shout out for Donald. Glad to see the tactile-brain-fingers thing as still happening. Click, click different than contentious scrawl. Contact. It’s just serotonin.
nice blog
i write by hand with a waterman fountain pen, type on my computer, and i also use a portable typewriter i bought from a local antique store for twenty dollars. it all depends on my mood, of course, and also on my rewrites. like donald, i rewrite with a multi-medium approach. why the waterman fountain pen? i do feel like a pretentious douche in class refilling my pen with ink. but i’ve always been ocd about pens, and since i was twelve i wanted a waterman fountain pen. since i bought my pen four years ago, i have literally used it for at least ninety percent of all my hand writing, no matter what it is–a job application, a test, or in my journal. i wanted a single pen i could use my entire life. i can’t write with full force by hand, it seems, if i use another pen.
I like pen and paper for first drafts because it discourages wordsmithing.
nice blog
i write by hand with a waterman fountain pen, type on my computer, and i also use a portable typewriter i bought from a local antique store for twenty dollars. it all depends on my mood, of course, and also on my rewrites. like donald, i rewrite with a multi-medium approach. why the waterman fountain pen? i do feel like a pretentious douche in class refilling my pen with ink. but i’ve always been ocd about pens, and since i was twelve i wanted a waterman fountain pen. since i bought my pen four years ago, i have literally used it for at least ninety percent of all my hand writing, no matter what it is–a job application, a test, or in my journal. i wanted a single pen i could use my entire life. i can’t write with full force by hand, it seems, if i use another pen.
FP also, usually a Parker 51 when I’m out, but at home with a Shaffer Snorkel and Private Reserve Green when I’m in. All of that is fetishism, of course, and I do also write straight-to-screen, but I se the pens especially when I’m stuck. It slows me down and I have to physically make changes to the text — cross things out and whatnot.
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FP also, usually a Parker 51 when I’m out, but at home with a Shaffer Snorkel and Private Reserve Green when I’m in. All of that is fetishism, of course, and I do also write straight-to-screen, but I se the pens especially when I’m stuck. It slows me down and I have to physically make changes to the text — cross things out and whatnot.
*use
Yeah, I’m headed back that way.
Really short things get written in pen in a notebook before being typed. I also keep a notebook full of sentences, fragments, possible titles and such that I jot down for later use.
Anything long form is typed.
Yeah, I’m headed back that way.
Really short things get written in pen in a notebook before being typed. I also keep a notebook full of sentences, fragments, possible titles and such that I jot down for later use.
Anything long form is typed.
oh bernard, you and your “butterfly powder”.
Ackch, I keep too such wad of pocketpaper, but more for lists like “films to see” an “books to look for” (+ library codes), and then fun: “favorite songs of friends” and “conversation starters with strangers”. okay, obviously also quotes and vocab and poem-cotyledons, “ridiculous eavesdrops on the rapid-transit”, but personally i don’t write methodically, only edit so.
These moths I jot are a delight to revisit once the sheetsve filled or spine worn thin. You omelette-poets might find a mine in them.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ksehj5nWfhlmXmFaXHrmPo7ZFkG-I_-rzANM9jepVOU?feat=directlink
oh bernard, you and your “butterfly powder”.
Ackch, I keep too such wad of pocketpaper, but more for lists like “films to see” an “books to look for” (+ library codes), and then fun: “favorite songs of friends” and “conversation starters with strangers”. okay, obviously also quotes and vocab and poem-cotyledons, “ridiculous eavesdrops on the rapid-transit”, but personally i don’t write methodically, only edit so.
These moths I jot are a delight to revisit once the sheetsve filled or spine worn thin. You omelette-poets might find a mine in them.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ksehj5nWfhlmXmFaXHrmPo7ZFkG-I_-rzANM9jepVOU?feat=directlink
thx! i’m in the slow process of coming out of the closet. i imagine sexually-queer come-outs start having sex immediately, but to admit yer a poet, in a world so swamped with ordinary talk (heck even in this blog), makes me bewildered, and i tread only inches (hiss! metric! — I mean, centimeters). thanks for the toe-tap, it means quite a lot. Now, back to my Bexley.
thx! i’m in the slow process of coming out of the closet. i imagine sexually-queer come-outs start having sex immediately, but to admit yer a poet, in a world so swamped with ordinary talk (heck even in this blog), makes me bewildered, and i tread only inches (hiss! metric! — I mean, centimeters). thanks for the toe-tap, it means quite a lot. Now, back to my Bexley.