"Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils."
-Margaret Atwood explains how to write.
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Yes yes. Or: bring your typewriter in a carry on.
If you wrote it in blood, people are more likely to want to read it. Not because of passion, but length.
I had a pen somehow crack into two pieces in my hand as the plane was lazily preparing to takeoff. My hands were stuck in the 'I don't know' position while I waited for stewardship, like a child.
Mechanical pencils.
Quills!
Boggle and a digital camera.
this made my day. really.
Or just leave it permanently imprinted on your imagination.
Christ, that feature's been troubling me all weekend. Was it supposed to show me that only Elmore Leonard and Will Self *can* write?
Seriously. I consoled myself with the subject line of "Ten rules for writing fiction." Obviously none of these apply to my Tumblr, right? RIGHT?
CORRECT.
"Tweet what you know".
I would prefer to take Margaret Atwood.
Or...bring 1 mechanical pencil.