Wednesday, August 09, 2000

Blue ballpoint pen ink

If you're going to be a writer, you really should step away from the computer now and again and practice your craft using pen and paper. There is something truly intoxicating in the aroma of blue ballpoint pen ink as it wafts up toward you from the page, mingling with the scents of coffee and cigarette smoke as it dissipates somewhere near the ceiling of a tres boheme coffee bar on a humid Monday night.