Michael Jackman, Writer

I thought I’d share with you some of my writing implements. People who know me well know I have this thing for fountain pens. I started buying some decent but relatively cheap ones. Then my wife bought me a retro brown Pelican fine fountain pen for our anniversary, helped by my serious pen collector friend [...]

You know how sometimes you worry the writing just won’t come any more? It’s every writer’s greatest fear, only seconded by having the writing flow, but suck. I was very worried about being blocked after I turned in grades and collapsed exhausted for about a week. Finally, my brain lock loosened up and I started [...]

Woke up, not with visions of sugar plums dancing in my head, but with the first two sentences of the novel. Good writing session this morning. Well, okay really – filled a couple of pages of a scene where Mindy (formerly Melinda) meets Jack. Probably have to throw out the first two sentences. But it [...]