I've been playing with fountain pens lately* and have gotten around to inks. Namely, the cleaning and refilling thereof.

I've mostly been using the Platinum Preppy because they're as cheap and disposable as they come with fountain pens... and really, really good. More comfortable than the other fountain pens I've picked up and the cartridge ink, ( Read more... )

Consider Phlebas and Player of Games are a couple of the books recommended to get into Iain M. Banks’s Culture books, and what luck, they’re the only ones my library has!

I read a comment saying that Consider Phlebas is hard to get into until the very end when you see all the threads start coming together, but I was having a rollicking good time, ( Read more... )

Bee-safe gardening is difficult ( Read more... )

Knowing my interest in sentient vehicles and the relationships people have with them, and also my love of the ocean, someone recommended I read Katya's World ( Read more... )

Serious question for fantasy and science fiction readers: are apostrophes ever acceptable in a constructed language ("conlang ( Read more... )

I know that editing is the hardest part of writing, and that all writers trip over the details or process, that getting the kernel of "I have this idea what about these dumb kids saving the world" into an actually formed journey is the hard part, but seriously ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was productive and settled in to play some Guild Wars 2. But first! A bath. At which point I took a spectacular fall and slammed my knee into the handle of a drawer while thinking "please God don't let my head go through the glass shower door."

My head didn't and I felt the knee injury as a distant sensation of something that should ( Read more... )

Anybody have the words they can't spell?

Maybe you know how it's spelled, you just can't type it out.

I'm finally getting around to writing up a retelling of "Prince Lindworm" I mentioned back in December, where I wondered how you get two sons from eating a red rose that'll give you a son and a white rose that'll give you a daughter. Sure, I can ( Read more... )

My giant jet-intake fan started squeaking last week, so I've had to use a smaller, less deafening fan along with a noise machine app on my phone to sleep.

Which means that now there's nighttime construction going on next door. Bulldozers at 3:30 to wake me up.

Happy birthday to meeeeeee.

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