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Product Profile: Caran d’Ache Frosty and 849 Pens

Yesterday, we took a look at the Caran d’Ache pencil sharpening machine, the first crank sharpener we’ve offered on Pencils.com. Today, we’re going to take a look at another Pencils.com first from Caran d’Ache: pens. Frosty Pens First…
NaNoWriMo

Tips to Prepare for NaNoWriMo

The holidays are here again - and I don't mean Halloween and Thanksgiving! I'm talking about National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo. Every year I intend to participate, but the daunting task of writing a whole novel in the month of…
Authors who write longhand

Five Famous Authors Who Write Longhand

These days, it seems like most of the writing I do takes place on a computer - email, essays, memos at work, Facebook messages, even these posts, and the list goes on. It was a comfort to know - and I hope it will be for you too - that some…
English Majors

10 Things Only An English Major Will Understand

Remember meeting people in college? You'd always ask/get asked the Big Three: 1. Where are you from? 2. What dorm are you in? 3. What's your major? Nothing said more about you - for better or worse - than the answer to #3. I spent four years…
Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard’s Rules for Writing (And Why He’d Want You to Break Them)

If you loved Get Shorty, have watched 3:10 to Yuma a hundred times, read the Jack Foley books until the covers fell off, or watch Justified religiously, you can thank beloved writer Elmore Leonard. Although Leonard passed away on August 20th,…
Boost Your Creativity

5 Ways to Boost Your Creativity

As an artist, there’s nothing more frustrating than staring at a blank page with a blank mind. Thankfully, there are ways to boost your creativity. Some claim working backwards can help, others say a messy desk is the secret to unlocking…
Fats Waller Songs

Songs from Literary Masterpieces [Video]

Songs find their way into literary masterpieces often times, adding context, capturing the mood of the story, allowing the reader to enjoy an external frame of reference grounded in the real world.  I love discovering new music via literature,…
Handwriting

The Perks of Handwriting: 7 Reasons Every Writer Should Write by Hand

With a keyboard or touchscreen within reach at any given moment, handwriting is becoming something of a lost art. There are some aspects of handwriting, however, that other writing methods can never replicate or replace.  Here are seven reasons…
Pixar Studios

A Pixar Primer – 22 Rules for Storytelling

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A Pixar movie always packs an emotional and visual punch, but have you ever considered the method that goes into creating it? Earlier this month, a list of 22 rules for storytelling, compiled by former Pixar Storyboard artist Emma Coats,…
Matt Gallagher Author Photo

Fire and Forget: Interview with Author Matt Gallagher

Pencils.com spoke with Iraq War Veteran Matt Gallagher, author of, "KABOOM: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War," about his work on the recent anthology Fire and Forget. Edited by Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton,…