I love Pilot gel-ink pens! So smooth and consistent, and the ink is quality.
Autographs & Pens
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Absolutely -- practice, practice, practice signing your pen name! If by chance you start to sign your real name, you'l have to start over with a new book and you don't want to keep wasting your stock that way. 
I write all my short stories by hand with a Parker fountain pen with refillable ink. Earlier I used to write with ordinary black ballpoint pens
and trust me (and I know that I am risking sounding like a snob here): there is a vast difference between the two.
The Parker pens have different nibs and thickness for a more calligraphy effect and I can really recommend them.
If you can, try visit a shop that specializes in pens and stationary and try out which one that suits you best.
(For example: I have rather long and slender fingers, so I need a fairly large pen and I prefer when they have a little bit of weight.)
Anyway, this is what it looks like:
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Good luck!
and trust me (and I know that I am risking sounding like a snob here): there is a vast difference between the two.
The Parker pens have different nibs and thickness for a more calligraphy effect and I can really recommend them.
If you can, try visit a shop that specializes in pens and stationary and try out which one that suits you best.
(For example: I have rather long and slender fingers, so I need a fairly large pen and I prefer when they have a little bit of weight.)
Anyway, this is what it looks like:
Good luck!
Lady TL Jennings said:I write all my short stories by hand with a Parker fountain pen with refillable ink. Earlier I used to write with ordinary black ballpoint pens
and trust me (and I know that I am risking sounding like a snob here): there is a vast difference between the two.
The Parker pens have different nibs and thickness for a more calligraphy effect and I can really recommend them.
If you can, try visit a shop that specializes in pens and stationary and try out which one that suits you best.
(For example: I have rather long and slender fingers, so I need a fairly large pen and I prefer when they have a little bit of weight.)
Anyway, this is what it looks like:
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I don't see anything scratched out....That's just nuts. Beautiful though.
Good luck!
Neil Gaiman is quite partial to Waterman fountain pens, for signing books and writing things in general, these days.
I'm quite fond of Sheaffer fountain pens, particularly the Snorkel and Touchdown models, of which I have... many.
Half the fun of using a FP, though, is in the ridiculous choice of ink - there are around three-hundred colors currently in production. (A very small sampling can be found here.)
I'm quite fond of Sheaffer fountain pens, particularly the Snorkel and Touchdown models, of which I have... many.
Half the fun of using a FP, though, is in the ridiculous choice of ink - there are around three-hundred colors currently in production.
(A very small sampling can be found here.)
I can't stop looking at this, it's so prettyLady TL Jennings said:I write all my short stories by hand with a Parker fountain pen with refillable ink. Earlier I used to write with ordinary black ballpoint pens
and trust me (and I know that I am risking sounding like a snob here): there is a vast difference between the two.
The Parker pens have different nibs and thickness for a more calligraphy effect and I can really recommend them.
If you can, try visit a shop that specializes in pens and stationary and try out which one that suits you best.
(For example: I have rather long and slender fingers, so I need a fairly large pen and I prefer when they have a little bit of weight.)
Anyway, this is what it looks like:
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Good luck!
You guys are seriously making me think my 0.05 G2 Pilots aren't quite as nice as I thought. I mean sure they write smooth and dry quick (very important for lefties), but they're not terribly fancy. That's ok, I'll use the cheap every day pens and just drool at your signers
Also I'm glad to see your doing well enough to even need to consider this question Ms. Dark, I've got your 3 Mageri books and love them.
Also I'm glad to see your doing well enough to even need to consider this question Ms. Dark, I've got your 3 Mageri books and love them.
Just to be clear, while I have four paperbacks out, I've never signed a single book, and have no intention of ever doing so. I just write with neat pens 'cause, um, they're neat.Dustin Metzger said:That's ok, I'll use the cheap every day pens and just drool at your signers
Somebody makes a not-very-expensive rollerball pen that accepts standard fountain pen ink. Could be fun for folks who like a little flair in their life. (Private Reserve's "Black Cherry" ink is a dead ringer for human blood, FWIW. Not that there are any horror writers here who'd enjoy the chance to be awesomely creepy, or anything.) Oh, and there's a French company that makes perfumed inks, too...
Don't they leak or drop blots? I'd love to try them, but I figured they must be messy and, by that, risky.George Berger said:Neil Gaiman is quite partial to Waterman fountain pens, for signing books and writing things in general, these days.
I'm quite fond of Sheaffer fountain pens, particularly the Snorkel and Touchdown models, of which I have... many.
Half the fun of using a FP, though, is in the ridiculous choice of ink - there are around three-hundred colors currently in production.
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