[Pen/Pencil Review] State of the Blog
Today is pen blog day. And this is going to be a wee bit different. Last week I helped man a table at an event for my day job – and pillaged the other tables before I left I have a giant pile of promotional pens.
So over the next few weeks, I’m going to go through some of these, do the research on where they can be found – if you need promotional pens for any reason. And I might even compare a couple side by side. Let you know about features, printing space, mechanisms, and the like. Most of them are black ink. Some have better grips or options than others. We’ll see how they stack up against each other and as “normal” pens.
I’ve also got to do inventory on what I have in my gigantic pen stash that I haven’t ever gotten around to review. It’s a good thing I still have plenty of things to write to test pens and make fictional writing progress – such as with the Christmas play I MUST finish in the next two weeks. So lots of opportunities for pen testing and reviews.
So that’s where I am for the blog. And I’m about due for a JetPens order – therein lies the future of the blog. I’m also open to recommendations – from anyone: readers, retailers, manufacturers… Let me know what you want to see, and (within price range reason) I’ll see what I can do. There is a future for the blog, because this is one of the ones I can keep going and enjoy doing.
Finger’s crossed – someday I’ll be able to review some of the nicer, luxury pens that right now, frankly, I can’t afford no matter how much I drool over them at pen stores like Paradise Pen Company – one of my happy places. Oh, and soon there will be the Dallas Pen Show (which I’ll have to make a bigger effort to get to) since our convention hotel isn’t near there anymore. Lots of opportunity coming up. Looking forward to it.