You know that movie, Stranger than Fiction with Emma Thompson, Will Ferrel, and Dustin Hoffman? Here’s a quick trailer if you don’t. It’s a playful look at the relationship between writers and their characters. It’s about (as Faulkner advised) killing your darlings. It’s a playful farce that experiments with tense and point of view. Though […]
travel writing
A Wander-Writer’s Travel Writing Kit
The essentials of a travel writing kit are really very simple. Ask any traveler what her most essential item is and she will very likely to tell you it’s her hat. Ask a writer that same question and she’ll tell you that a pen and notebook must be on her person at all times. I […]
Fisher Space Pen for Wander Writers
The pen I’d like to recommend for that purpose is the legendary Fisher Space Pen. First, let’s satisfy our inner geek with the story of how the Space Pen was designed by the Fisher Pen Company for use during space travel. Yes, SPACE TRAVEL! I don’t know about how demanding your travel style is but if this baby can withstand the cold of space, the heat of re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, the variable atmospheric pressures of 0g up to a possible 12g of ballistic reentry, well… I’d say the Space pen has my travel needs covered.