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Ken Can't Write
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A would-be writer, playing with his writer's blocks. #fiction #folklore #folkrealism #magicalrealism #amwriting #writingcommunity
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Happy birthday to me!

(But also to a great organization who is doing some really important work in Portland, Oregon!)

www.facebook.com/donate/11616...
Happy birthday to me!

(But also to a great organization who is doing some really important work in Portland, Oregon!)

www.facebook.com/donate/11616...
November 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Beautiful, powerful day out at the Oregon coast. I don't remember the last time I felt the wind blowing that hard. #oregon #oregoncoast #haystackrock
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
October 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Ordered a sort of Halloween palette of fountain pen ink. Not entirely on purpose, but I'm delighted with the result.

Birmingham inks are really excellent, BTW. Highly recommended.

www.birminghampens.com/collections/...
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
August 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
One of my abs favorite inks. Intense and strangely difficult to pin down with regard to hue, and a bright, metallic gold sheen to top it off.

This color is part of Sailor's "Ink Studio" series, where each ink is given a number instead of a name. That said, I think of this one as "Disco Era Pink".
May 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
At least the pen & ink aren't crashing.

Wearingeul "Shoot the Moon" in a Kakimori dip pen on Cosmo Air Snow.

(Solved. Hint: Delete your font cache.)

#photoshop #photoshopsucks #TomChalky #fonts #type
April 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy #caturday from Xander!
April 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A peaceful & contented #caturday to you.

Also, consider adopting a black kitty, they're wonderful & too often looked over.)
March 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Spent some time at Kinokuniya in downtown pdx this evening.
March 29, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Is it just me or are writers some of the neediest people you'll ever meet?

(And I mean "Is it just me" in multiple senses of the phrase.)
March 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Oh good GRIEF!

TikTok, take a freakin' chill pill!
February 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thank you for thrilling and mystifying us in the best way imaginable. Rest in peace.

variety.com/2025/film/ne...
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
variety.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
One of my favorite songs to write to for some 35+ years now.

open.spotify.com/track/7aKZzF...

What are you using for inspiration right now?

#amwriting
Ivy And Neet - Remastered
This Mortal Coil · Filigree & Shadow (Remastered) · Song · 1986
open.spotify.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:10 AM
I like weird things to happen in my stories. Twists & turns that don't happen in "real life".

But also, I don't enjoy fantasy. Magic systems & the like. I don't like it when characters are surprised to learn there are elves or monsters in a world just beyond their closet.

#writingcommunity
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
I'm cultivating an approach in my writing that's counterintuitive in a lot of ways, but I'm still fully committed to it.

Here's the deal...
October 6, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Sitting at a local coffee house with my wife and daughter, trying out a new bluetooth kb with my phone. #amwriting #wobkey75 #thok
September 15, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Ken Can't Write
We're delighted to announce a new future for Ursula's home in Portland, Oregon. The Le Guin family will donate the house to Literary Arts as a site for the Ursula K. Le Guin Writers Residency. apnews.com/article/ursu...
Ursula K. Le Guin's home will become a writers residency
The former home of the late Ursula K. Le Guin is being readied to become a base for contemporary authors.
apnews.com
June 10, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Showing off some #sheen.

#fountainpen #ink #paper #stationery #journal #writing

Blue/purple ink:
Organic Studios NItrogen in a TWSBI Diamond 580ALR Fine nib

Pink/gold ink:
Sailor Ink Studio 731 in a LAMY Safari broad nib

Paper is Yamamoto Cosmo Air Snow in a journal made by Galen Leather.
May 25, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Work was rough today. Ended up going for a long drive with loud music.

On the way back, a song from my WIP playlist came on. I let it cue up the movies in my head. Different ending this time. Something that gathered up a lot of loose ends & tied them together.

Love it when that happens. #amwriting
May 21, 2024 at 9:51 AM
I've been stuck on the same 5 or 6 chapters too long. Working out some methods that might help me move on.

Writing isn't just a sentence-by-sentence thing for me. Common advice hasn't helped. If it doesn't ring true on multiple levels, it's as if I haven't written anything at all.

#amwriting
May 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Finally, it is done.

www.reddit.com/r/guitarpeda...

(For now.)

I'll be posting a full write-up later.

#pedalboard #guitarpedals #guitareffects #diy
April 27, 2024 at 4:27 AM