Inky T O D - Journaling with your inks

[amberleadavis]

Do you journal with your fountain pens?  If so, do you use one particular color - all the colors - whatever is inked?

And suggest a topic or something that might be interesting to read in an old journal.

[amberleadavis]

@dcwaites suggested that the most interesting journal topics to archeologists are topics we might consider mundane - like your grocery list.  I've written down the menu for Thanksgiving (back when we could all meet up as a big family).  I love that my mom kept a receipt from the local grocery store from the day I was born - the grocery store is long gone, but it is super cool.  I've also journaled quotes from my favorite TV show, Babylon 5.  As you might have guessed, I journal a lot about inks and try and write with every ink in my journal so that I can compare the inks.

 

 

[ENewton]

I journal in the sense that I write about whatever is on my mind on a given day, and I make a point of using all the pens I have inked, usually proceeding to the next ink when I start a paragraph.  However, I don't keep these daily scribblings.  I also have bound journals that I use for ideas relevant to specific projects, and I do date the entries in those journals.  

[inkstainedruth]

I tend to use a different pen and ink every day, unless I'm running out of ink in something (in which case there may be three different colors between the first page of a day's entry and the last -- generally all on page three).

There are times when I might be in more of hurry, and so I might be wanting to write with a broad or italic nib instead of a Japanese fine, but it's going to be with some subset (and that includes a single pen/ink combo) of whatever pens are inked up at the moment).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PithyProlix]

I don't journal but I take notes when I read, on whatever I am reading except the daily news. I change ink/pens every one or two pages and would likely do the same if I journaled. 

[Detman101]

Yep, I do that daily.
It's the only way I can keep sane tracking of the things that I feel only happen to me.
Of course, I write quotes and sayings.
Different pens, differing inks...especially if I get a new ink.
Gotta log that new flavor!

 

[LizEF]

Love your drawings @Detman101!

 

On 5/5/2021 at 4:16 PM, amberleadavis said:

the most interesting journal topics to archeologists are topics we might consider mundane

Anyone who thinks that ordinary life is boring for others to read should find the journals of Leo Tolstoy's wife Sofia, or the Recluse Recluce novels by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. - ordinary people, doing ordinary things (for the most part in the case of Modesitt), and yet fascinating to read.  Sure, you have to put in the time and effort, but in my experience, people are better story tellers than they realize, they just don't try as hard to write their stories as they do to tell them aloud.

 

As for journaling... I use my review pen to journal, and sometimes other pens guest star, if they're inked and I feel like using more than one pen for some reason.  And I only use fountain pens.

 

As for a topic that might be interesting to read, not a topic exactly, but I once read advice to make a list of 10 ideas every day.  They could be absurd or ordinary, but 10 ideas.  I think that could get fascinating.  I don't do this, though I probably should - seems like a good creative exercise.  Thinking about it, my mind would always go to "what if..." followed by something absurd.

[Paul-in-SF]

I write around an A4 page per day on lined pages in a journal, each day with a different one of the pens that are inked. I try to use a different color every day, but I run the pens in rotation and once in a while two adjacent colors are fairly similar. This is the major use I make of my pens, which is why it takes me so long to run them dry. The content is just the events of the day, and what I thought about them. I can't imagine these journal pages surviving me nor anyone in the future ever being interested in them. 

[PithyProlix]

4 hours ago, Detman101 said:

 

So, what's that blue? 

 

Thanks for sharing! 

[Detman101]

4 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

So, what's that blue? 

 

Thanks for sharing! 

Only the best... "Pilot Iroshizuku - Kon Peki"

[PithyProlix]

49 minutes ago, Detman101 said:

Only the best... "Pilot Iroshizuku - Kon Peki"

 

Thanks. Of Pilot's inks I would have guessed Shin Kai.

[Detman101]

15 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Thanks. Of Pilot's inks I would have guessed Shin Kai.

Hmmm....actually, that might be "Ama-Iro" at that point in my journal.
🤔

[PithyProlix]

16 minutes ago, Detman101 said:

Hmmm....actually, that might be "Ama-Iro" at that point in my journal.
🤔

 

🤔 indeed...

[inkstainedruth]

I would have guessed maybe Tsuyu-kusa.  Which doesn't seem to get the love around FPN that some of the other Iroshizuku inks get.  

Don't get me wrong -- I LOVE Kon-peki, and would never EVER want to be without bottles of Yama-guri and Yama-budo (and this thread is reminding me I haven't dug out the bottle of Murasaki Shikibu I got at the Ohio Pen Show a couple of years ago when all the vendors were having their "Buy now before Pilot raises their prices!" sales).  But Tsuyu-kusa is well behaved and just a really quiet, soothing color.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

I also write down things that I need to remember - like what medicines I am taking.  That may never be interesting in the future, but it might be.

[knarflj]

I journal most days, with whatever's inked--and since I usually have at least 3 or 4 pens inked, I tend to switch colours each day.  Contrasting colours are used to record in the outer margins the titles of any books I read or movies or plays I watch.  

 

Separate journal books hold notes on my reading (when I'm being disciplined enough to take notes!).  In those, I try to use a single ink for all notes on any given book, then switch inks for the next book.

 

I think my daily journal would probably be pretty boring for anyone else to read.  Thank you, @amberleadavis for the spur to think about different things to write about, and @LizEF for the reading suggestions!

[LizEF]

15 minutes ago, knarflj said:

Thank you,... @LizEF for the reading suggestions!

You're welcome!  Hope you enjoy, should you choose to read either.

[knarflj]

15 hours ago, LizEF said:

You're welcome!  Hope you enjoy, should you choose to read either.

 

The first Recluce book is already waiting for me at the library, and Sonia Tolstoy's diaries are on their way.   I've been looking for some new reads, so your recommendations were very timely!

[LizEF]

37 minutes ago, knarflj said:

 

The first Recluce book is already waiting for me at the library, and Sonia Tolstoy's diaries are on their way.   I've been looking for some new reads, so your recommendations were very timely!

[ethernautrix]

My Hobonichis are filled with the route details of long walks and bike rides.

For example (detail): Sztabowa, (L) Łączności, (R) Pretficza, north on Powstańców Śląskich, etc. It's a way of learning the street names. (People will try to give directions by naming tram or bus stops or other landmarks; I'm all... what's the street name? Also, when Poles ask me for directions, I can usually provide them.)