This week in #storycraft, I asked the Storycrafters to discuss the reason June Casagrande gives us to learn our fundamentals, in It was the Best of Sentences, it was the Worst of Sentences, : “If you want to master the art of the sentence, you must first accept a somewhat unpleasant truth – one a…
Shaman’s Crossing by Robin Hobb My rating: 1 of 5 stars I’m giving this book 1 star because I simply could not push my way through it. A loved one asked me to read it, so I wanted to give it a decent chance but 33% was all the exposition I could handle. This is…
The first thing I thought, when I saw the Apricot ink in the bottle was “Edelstein Mandarin.” After I’d written with the Apricot I thought “This is what Edelstein Mandarin should have been.” Don’t get me wrong, I like the Mandarin but it’s just not Mandarin, which are delicate and sweet and a lighter orange…
Grenade is extremely close to the Oku Yama of the Autumn 2010 range and I wondered, for a few moments, if this was just re-named for the English market (if oddly.) When I opened the lid, though, it was clear that Grenade has more pink to it, where Oku Yama has a more of…
This is a medium green with little blue in it and is almost an army green (in fact I wish I had the Noodler’s Army Green to compare it to, it’s probably similar.) Finding a green that isn’t too blue, without being yellow is actually hard work. Epinard sits nicely between Edelstein’s rich, dark Aventurine…
For some reason, I’ve always loved to write my fiction in purple ink but finding good mid and light purples, which aren’t painfully bright can be tough. Sailor’s Winter 2010 collection gave me one of my all time favourite inks: Fuji Musume, a beautiful, pastel purple; This Spring Sailor has brought us Ultramarine, a mid-purple…
Today’s #Storycraft chat was an experiment of sorts. For the past six or seven weeks, I have been spruiking that the chat on May 1st (US time) would be a book club type event at which we would be discussing “On Writing” by Stephen King. I chose King’s book because when I asked for books…
Sky High is a true light blue, without going pastel or highlighter. Sky High is not as light as the J. Herbin Bleu Azur but where it is does match that lovely ink is in its purity – there is no hint of either yellow or purple in its hue; this is the light blue…
A good pale pink ink is hard to find, (Ryan at Pear Tree Pens will attest to my search) most are either too purple, or too orange. I had been waiting for the Sailor Spring Limited Editions because, I figured that surely, if anyone can give us a good pastel pink it would be the…
I hadn’t expected to be able to get my hands on these until, at least, May but Art Brown has been right on top of the limited Edition Sailor colours and I received them in the post this morning. I don’t usually pre-order an entire collection of colours sight unseen but these ones all seemed…
