Red Pen Diaries
Revisions for Goodhalo – First Draft are under way. It wasn’t (and won’t be) easy, but I got a couple of pages marked up real nice n’ red. So much so that my pen (which I suspect was old) ran dry and I had to make a special trip to get ‘the pen’ to mark up my work.
You know how people have a special shirt they wear or don’t wash their socks for like an entire season? Yeah…well, I HAVE to use a certain type of pen or it just isn’t gonna work.
The thing that sucks? You can’t just buy THE RED PEN. You’ve gotta drop $10 to get the 4-pack. It comes with Blue (which is useless) and 2 black pens (that I enjoy). Even so, I would’ve REALLY liked 3 more red pens.
Sorry, Thomas. That’s not an option.
You might be wondering…what is it about this pen that rocks so much? Well, I’m a lefty and as such, I need a pen that has ink that dries almost instantly. The Uniball Vision Micro makes that dream a reality. Also, it make a nice clicky noise when you turn the cap. Besides that, you can see how much ink is left before you have to go and spend another $10 just for one stinking pen.
One. Stinking. Pen.
Man! I thought *I* was the only person who bought/kept pens for the sheer tactile pleasure of the clickity-click potential.
I love the Uniball Vision fine point.
No substitutions.
I’m a pen-snob too. And a coffee snob. And a beer snob. And a book snob. And an entertainment snob. (I don’t like anything that’s too popular–hence the refusal to get into Harry Potter). Now that I think about it, I’m a snob in a lot of ways. Oh no.
Order your pens online at somewhere like Office Depot and you can order a box of red pens that are not poisoned with blue or black ink. You may have to order a big box, but your price will be MUCH less than $10/pen.
The wife (sniz) and I have a special place where we keep the red pens to make our kids miserable…I mean, to grade their papers.
Just got The Walking Dead Volume 7 in the mail yesterday. Can’t wait to crack that baby open.