Michael Jackman, Writer

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Entries Tagged ‘Writing’

Dip pens help me compose

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 [...]

A novel in progress finds it reason to be?

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 [...]

First true writing morning of winter break

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 [...]