2013 Writers Series

[jar]

Are Abdul Alhazred, Randolph Carter, Arkady Darrell and Emmanuel Goldstein the short list names for the 2013 Writes Edition?

[PBW]

Emanuel Goldstein :roflmho: That would be fun to see.

[JLS1]

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

[akidrees]

well i would vote for the Abdul Alhazred

Edited April 27, 2012 by akidrees

[BrandonA]

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

 

I don't think it really matters how they write it, pen/paper or typewriter or computer/tablet. The way in which they are released, ie ebooks may be interesting. I think though as look as the author becomes a classic they are in with a chance, I think though for any current writer to become a classic will take many years. Also books are themed on the book content, therefore as long as an author has things which symbolise them MB will be able to include them on a pen.

 

Here's a question though, which single city was the birth place of three authors chosen to have a WE themed after them?

[pecolli]

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

 

 

Interesting thought but its not as if all the WEs only focussed on writers who used exclusively or even mostly a fountain pen....Christie used a typewriter and Dickens wrote before widespread use of fountain pens.....really the WE series is nothing to do with the writers' love or even use of FPs....

[Faulkner]

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

 

 

Interesting thought but its not as if all the WEs only focussed on writers who used exclusively or even mostly a fountain pen....Christie used a typewriter and Dickens wrote before widespread use of fountain pens.....really the WE series is nothing to do with the writers' love or even use of FPs....

 

Good point indeed, not to mention Cervantes, Faulkner, ...

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Edited April 27, 2012 by Faulkner

[Maine Vintner]

Hmmm, tough question - Dublin and London each claim two WE Honorees. I thought it might be London but Dickens was born in Portsmouth. There are several French writers born near Paris...

Hmmm. Good question. I'll keep looking for an answer.

 

Vintner.

 

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

 

I don't think it really matters how they write it, pen/paper or typewriter or computer/tablet. The way in which they are released, ie ebooks may be interesting. I think though as look as the author becomes a classic they are in with a chance, I think though for any current writer to become a classic will take many years. Also books are themed on the book content, therefore as long as an author has things which symbolise them MB will be able to include them on a pen.

 

Here's a question though, which single city was the birth place of three authors chosen to have a WE themed after them?

[torstar]

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

 

 

That's why they shouldn't honour anyone who hasn't been dead for over 100 years.

 

:meow:

[jebib]

While I focus primarily on the "Lost Generation" (what about James Joyce?) I have always been more attracted to the design of the pen. I gave up on Hemingway a long time ago but not Dumas. Any time you set up a Hall of Fame some think there is a point of diminishing returns.

[Richard F]

Here's a question though, which single city was the birth place of three authors chosen to have a WE themed after them?

 

Wilde, Shaw + Swift = Dublin

[Mkim]

um...maybe I am missing something...

 

Abdul Alhazred -> as in HP Lovecraft?

Because I've been DYING for MB to do HP Lovecraft...but why Abdul Alhazred? Is it not more appropriate to do Cthulhu?!?!!

 

A Cthulhu pen would SELL! (if done tastefully)

I would most definitely be on the waiting list that’s for sure!

 

A Pen with "the great old one" done in a MB way...would be seriously nice

[BrandonA]

Hmmm, tough question - Dublin and London each claim two WE Honorees. I thought it might be London but Dickens was born in Portsmouth. There are several French writers born near Paris...

Hmmm. Good question. I'll keep looking for an answer.

 

Vintner.

 

Not to hijack the thread, but I wonder if at some point the "Writers Editions" pens are going to become an anachronism in the future since current writers are writing their works on computers/cellphones/tablets and publishing via the web/facebook/twitter/etc. It seems to me that either the WE will become either more focused on pre-late 20th Century/21st Century writers (which still gives them a lot of leeway) or they'll have to modify the WE for writers who wouldn't normally use a pen to write their works.

 

Just my 2 cents...Canadian, that is!

 

I don't think it really matters how they write it, pen/paper or typewriter or computer/tablet. The way in which they are released, ie ebooks may be interesting. I think though as look as the author becomes a classic they are in with a chance, I think though for any current writer to become a classic will take many years. Also books are themed on the book content, therefore as long as an author has things which symbolise them MB will be able to include them on a pen.

 

Here's a question though, which single city was the birth place of three authors chosen to have a WE themed after them?

 

It's Dublin, they've had Wilde, Shaw and new for 2012 Swift. The o ly thing that can beat this are two countries: France (Voltaire, Verne, Dumas and Proust) and USA (Hemingway, Poe, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Twain)

[jar]

um...maybe I am missing something...

 

Abdul Alhazred -> as in HP Lovecraft?

Because I've been DYING for MB to do HP Lovecraft...but why Abdul Alhazred? Is it not more appropriate to do Cthulhu?!?!!

 

A Cthulhu pen would SELL! (if done tastefully)

I would most definitely be on the waiting list that's for sure!

 

A Pen with "the great old one" done in a MB way...would be seriously nice

 

What has Cthulhu written lately?

[Mkim]

 

What has Cthulhu written lately?

 

I think that must be the most iconic response I got from FPN yet lol!

 

To answer your question: Cthulhu is the most famous character devised by the author: HP Lovecraft.

 

so the pen would be honoring HP Lovecraft....but stylisticaly I would hope they choose a Cthulhu theme, much like 2012 Pinocchio.

[Mkim]

um...maybe I am missing something...

 

Abdul Alhazred -> as in HP Lovecraft?

Because I've been DYING for MB to do HP Lovecraft...but why Abdul Alhazred? Is it not more appropriate to do Cthulhu?!?!!

 

A Cthulhu pen would SELL! (if done tastefully)

I would most definitely be on the waiting list that's for sure!

 

A Pen with "the great old one" done in a MB way...would be seriously nice

 

What has Cthulhu written lately?

 

I think that must be the most iconic response I got from FPN yet lol!

 

To answer your question: Cthulhu is the most famous character devised by the author: HP Lovecraft.

 

so the pen would be honoring HP Lovecraft....but stylisticaly I would hope they choose a Cthulhu theme, much like 2012 Pinocchio.

[jar]

um...maybe I am missing something...

 

Abdul Alhazred -> as in HP Lovecraft?

Because I've been DYING for MB to do HP Lovecraft...but why Abdul Alhazred? Is it not more appropriate to do Cthulhu?!?!!

 

A Cthulhu pen would SELL! (if done tastefully)

I would most definitely be on the waiting list that's for sure!

 

A Pen with "the great old one" done in a MB way...would be seriously nice

 

What has Cthulhu written lately?

 

I think that must be the most iconic response I got from FPN yet lol!

 

To answer your question: Cthulhu is the most famous character devised by the author: HP Lovecraft.

 

so the pen would be honoring HP Lovecraft....but stylisticaly I would hope they choose a Cthulhu theme, much like 2012 Pinocchio.

 

But not a writer. This is to honor writers.

[Bo Bo Olson]

James Joice would have to be MB's first Eyedropper and at least the size of a 149.

[NeelsK]

...MB's first Eyedropper...

Sacrilege!! Oh, wait .... I can SO see me with an teensy little eye dropper from the pharmacy .... and me painting a snow peak on it with tipex. Would be way stylish

 

[Edit] I meant the eye dropper TOOL, from the pharmacy. Unless MB brings out an accompanying dropper (suitably 'splatted' for $50 I would think ) to go with the pen. [/Edit]

Edited May 8, 2012 by NeelsK

[tmcneil82]

A Joyce would be cool, but how would they make a pen that was intentionally done to be hard to understand?

 

 

All joking aside, it would still be cool to see.