Tyler Weaver's Blog, page 34
August 19, 2019
Mornings Return, Etc Etc.
Summer break ends; another school year begins; the Informalities continue: for the next 179 Mondays through Fridays, morning to evening, it’s just the fur babies / editorial assistants and I, typing away and barking at things. Hitting the ground running with a more functional and sane routine, hopefully… at least that’s what I tell myself:
Two 45-minute blocks of work; a break for diabetically-mandated breakfast (tumeric is fantastic in omelettes); 15 minutes for reading (currently, MASKS, by...
August 18, 2019
August 17, 2019
The Next Exorcist: The War Begins, Again
A day and half a working morning with my new Lamy Safari – medium nib, charcoal, using a converter – and I have a few thoughts.
First, I do love it – a different animal from my also-beloved and current holder of The Exorcist title, the Pilot Metropolitan, neither better nor worse – just different. Very different.
Appreciate the diminished weight and the guiding grip (the love or the hate of the Lamy Safari): I’ve used my own method of holding writing implements (read: death grip) for so long...
August 16, 2019
(Life/Etc) 16aug2019
First day with my new Lamy Safari and I think I might already be in love.
(life/etc) 16aug2019
First day with my new Lamy Safari and I think I might already be in love.
WordCountKryptonite
That elusive balance between revision and forward motion in The Work… considering bringing back a word count but those things are my kryptonite: rarely helpful targets that almost always result in a pervasive sense of scatterbrained-ness and foul disposition. Maybe it’s the gaining idea behind them or maybe it’s because they invite exceptions and subdivisions – a word count of usable words? a word count of shit? handwritten? typed? all of the above, none of the above? yes? no? maybe? – not su...
August 15, 2019
(life/etc) 15aug2019
New office art, via antique mall.
