WRITING TOPIC - TOOLS OF THE TRADE
Posted in 25 Things, Art, Photography, Practice, Quotes, Work, Writing, Writing Topics, tagged BIC, Flair, fountain pens, history of writing utensils, Main Street, pens, Sharpie, Sinclair Lewis, the practice of writing, using lists to capture details, what's in front of me, writing about tools of the trade on March 26, 2008 | 29 Comments »
El Rancho Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2008, photo © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Writers love pens. And paper products. Those are our tools of the trade. When I was younger, there weren’t that many choices: Sharpies (1964), BICs (1950), and Flairs (1966). I used them all. My current pen of choice for Writing Practice [...]












