Not long until the pod of my body is shucked of its pea, the waiting is ludicrous. Celebrities magazines are filled with amazing stories of how women get their pre-baby bodies back. For me it will be getting back to my writing routine, which I have missed.
Now my office has moved to the lounge room, I find it full of distractions. I can see the passerby's on the street out of the corner of my eye, I don't have the green leafy view I had before and I have grown tired of tea. I wish I could blame these things soley for my lack of routine, but alas I can't. For me the best writing happens in life, outside, amidst the noise and populace, with my notebook and my pen and a handsome cup of coffee. And not on a computer, where I can distract myself to oblivion. I am not saying the computer doesn't have its place, but it is the not my favourite creative tool.
In order to achieve this , I have had set sure lures for myself, little investments or more like devil's bargains, that I will show up again. My most recent acquisition, a Lamy Safari white fountain pen. I don't know what sort of writing will come out of it, but it is a nice tool and I want to play with it. Thanks to Damon for the tips and encouragement. He is a burgeoning fountain pen users' sugar daddy, especially with his regular postings about writers tools.
I am also thinking on more inky matters. A week ago I didn't know such sensual ink existed and now, in my time of waiting, I am nearing obsession. Below are the Japanese Pilot Iroshizuku inks, just a few anyway, how deliriously pretty are they? The bottles are shaped like Shalimar, a little cord around the top that looks like a gorgeous string of pearls.
And these are the J.Herbin inks from France made since 1700, that look like the perfect dancing partner for a Clairefontaine notebook. The names are seductive as perfumes - tears of the raspberry/blackberry, like a bottle of Chambord.
If anyone has any knowledge of stockists in Australia, do let me know?The ink looks so lovely I could drink it from a chalice.
6 comments:
Hee, hee. Please don't drink! I am afraid that your writing routine is about to be blown to smithereens! Unless you are some sort of fairy and have a charm that enables you to think clearly on limited sleep and all the baby dramas. It is worth it however! No greater creative achievement than a baby! What a lovely fountain pen. I am totally in awe of it! xx
yes, drinking ink may produce Alice in Wonderland type symptoms I think!
Thanks for your encouraging words - I don't think I will get my writing routine back for a while, but knowing that once baby is here it will be closer is reassuring. I think it is good just to have some pure baby time without worrying about anything.
Though usually, if I get an hour and a good cup of coffee, that page is mine!
That's a purdy pen, GG. I hope loveliness and truth flow from it.
As for being a 'sugar daddy' - just being a daddy is work enough!
Speaking of which: GOOD LUCK!
(The baby will exhaust and preoccupy you. But, if all goes well, you will also get this.
Those inks are ravishingly beautiful - wonderful colours for painting into mixed-media pieces, letting the special translucency of ink come into its own...
Thanks Damon, have read that one before - but will read again as it is gold. Also have Rachel Powers' The Divided Heart ready to go ( already had it as she interviews a friend in there)... I liked the pens, but once the inks showed up, woah, I am there...
Thanks for stopping by Imogen, the translucency gives more depth to the colour I think. Lucky visual artists, they could go the whole hog, and justify it...
Ooooh, those inks make me want to grab a brush. I mean surely ink that beautiful would make me a great painter?
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