(Pardon the expression of anguish.)
At least I was able to buy red and blue pens individually (my preferred colors for writing), without having to buy a bunch of creativity-stifling black pens along with them.
When I was an undergraduate and did more creative writing, I went through this period where I would only write on blue legal pads. Being the days before online shopping, it was not always easy to find blue legal pads, but they seemed as much a necessary condition of textual production as, say, knowledge of the word 'the.' I can't imagine writing on a blue legal pad now; I'm not sure I could even in some sort of prose emergency. (Besides, I don't really write on paper anymore anyway, I just have to have paper with me to work out sentences while I write on my computer.)
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I've really been hoping that you would write a haiku for my academic haiku contest. I've read two of your short stories (1-page each as I recall) and was really impressed. Maybe now that you got your pens???
I tried with the haiku when I first saw it but did not have any inspiration. Maybe when my pens arrive, though!
inspiration dead
lack of blue pens stifles thought
will he write again?
~pj
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