A Year of Writing

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My name is Linda & I take pictures. Sometimes for fun, sometimes for money.

I also fill up spiral notebooks with novels, short stories, & essays, though I'm not above petty complaints & bad poetry.

I live in Kansas but visit the mountains frequently. I just can't choose between cornfields & jagged peaks. Here are a few more facts about me.

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Here's what a year of writing looks like:

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10 notebooks, 3/4 of a bottle of Noodler's ink and approximately 400,000 words (250/page, 160 pages a notebook, 10 notebooks).

I bought a Lamy Safari fountain pen early in the year and was curious how long it would last. (And no, I did not buy it just because it's called "Safari." OK so maybe I did a little.) I love writing with it, though I have become very sensitive to the type of paper I'm writing on. Not all notebooks are the same - even though I'm only writing on cheap spiral notebook pages. Some pages are "thirstier" than others, making me constantly aware of the nib on the page. I don't know that I mind, though. I've always loved that montage in Shakespeare in Love that shows him frantically putting down words - dipping the pen, sharpening the nib. It's like an artist preparing the canvas before he paints. I'm OK with stories feeling like they're handmade.

I have no plans to speed up or slow down. The plan is always 3 pages a day of fiction, essays, blog posts, thinking, dreaming and complaining. Every day. And so far, 2013 is shaping up to be the same.

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