A Sense of Doubt blog post #3573 - New Pencil & Eraser -Thank You to Adrian Tomine - Doing Some Writing

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3573 - New Pencil & Eraser -Thank You to Adrian Tomine - Doing Some Writing

I have been doing some writing in the notebook seen above. I bought it and the two pens clipped to it in Iceland, in a shop in Reykjavik.

I have been trying to get the right mechanical pencil for my work. I don't draw. And I write in pen. The pencil is used mostly for making lists, though when I was studying math, I used the pencil quite a bit.

A Japanese student gave me a Captain America pencil that I like a lot, but it was out of commission for some time when it ran out of lead as I did not know what size it used. I like a thin lead, such as 0.5 mm. I am also on the lookout for erasers. The one pictured on the book above is nice and useful but the cheap construction often makes it flawed, the eraser won't stay in place, keeps retracting because the clip is not tight enough.

So, when Adrian Tomine -- one of my all-time favorite creators; I own ALL of this books and comics -- published Q&A pictured above, I bought it and was intrigued by the pencils and implements on the cover. Thankfully, i's not just an image, but he has a whole chapter on the gear he uses.

I purchased immediately.

The pencil on the left of the cover with mine sitting next to it is the 

Muji Low Center of Gravity Mechanical Pencil [0.3mm] + MUJI Japan Mechanical Pencil Refill Leads [0.3mm - HB] 12pcs x 2 packs

Though I found that I liked the 0.5 mm leads, I may like the 0.3 lead even more. And the pencil is just fantastic. I can imagine that if I drew that the low center of gravity would be a huge bonus.

Not pictured on the cover is the eraser that I am showing in the package:

Tombow 57317 Mono Zero Eraser Value Pack, Rectangle 2.5mm. Precision Tip Pen-Style Eraser with Refill

I haven't tried it yet, but I expect that I will adore it.

I attended a lecture on Origami recently given by a friend, and in it, I started a poem, inspired by the visit of Kimberly King Parsons (KKP), our NW Voices author, and her description of a technique known as "consecution." I doubt I am applying consecution appropriately, but what little I learned of it, with an Internet search executed to learn more and share in a future blog post, I merged that method with a kind of Burroughs-Bowie cut and paste word salad method.

I am preparing a post about the poem and the entire writing process, but it's not done yet.

I am not sure the poem is done yet either.

However, the poem work started the creative juices flowing again and I have been noodling a novella I started two years ago.

I am also reading poetry and thinking about other explorations in which the order of the day is to "play," which was my main takeaway from KKP. I have lost a sense of play in my writing.

Time to take it back.

Thanks for tuning in.


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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2411.29 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 3437 days ago & DAD = 93 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.