Sorry, but this stylization of a pencil is ridiculous. Whats next? "The Steinbeck Pencil smell" or "The Steinbeck Pencil taste when he nibbles at the top rubber".
Christian Herings well when you write books like Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, I think you’re earned a little luxury in regard to how short of a pencil is too short.
I think it explains how he went through pencils so quickly. Grapes of Wrath reportedly ate up 80 pencils, and East of Eden reportedly ate up over 200. If you assume he wrote through the full length of the pencil you could get the erroneous assumption that he actually went through 80 full pencils, when in reality he discarded them only about halfway through their full length. So a normal person's 40 pencils novel draft equals about double that amount for Steinbeck, which is a little ironic considering he wrote a letter complaining about the price of his Blackwings being triple the Mongol 480's he used previously, yet he seems to have discarded them readily after just a few shaves in. He did once say that opening a fresh pack of pencils gave him an energy to write with them which got him excited to work, so perhaps his thinking was to run through a pack in order to get to the next pack and the ritual of excitement to write as quickly as possible. Either way, the dude was a bit of a nut for getting this hyped for (of all things) pencils. He wrote another letter to his editor basically admitting he was crazy for having this odd habit of writing with them (the word he used was eccentric), but to be fair he lived in the era before the ballpoint pen, so his only options were fountain pens, pencils and typewriters, and he couldn't type, so to spare himself the mess of ink, he must have chosen pencils and just became super picky about what brands he wrote with. At any rate, you're probably not going to find many people who enjoy writing with pencil under the age of 80 anymore. It's about as outdated a writing method as trying to paint your writing on a cave wall with crushed berries. I'm pretty sure only Nelson DeMille and James Patterson are the only living authors with any legitimacy to the claim that they write with pencil, and Patterson doesn't even write his own books, so what does that tell you?
@@harrisonmccartney4878 There is one other author I can name who writes with a Blackwing pencil: Andre Dubus III, and he's under 80. You are right, though. It's certainly something you only see a little of these days from writers. It's either pen, computer, or typewriter. Usually, the ones who draw use pencils, and understandably so.
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Sorry, but this stylization of a pencil is ridiculous. Whats next? "The Steinbeck Pencil smell" or "The Steinbeck Pencil taste when he nibbles at the top rubber".
Christian Herings well when you write books like Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, I think you’re earned a little luxury in regard to how short of a pencil is too short.
I think it explains how he went through pencils so quickly. Grapes of Wrath reportedly ate up 80 pencils, and East of Eden reportedly ate up over 200. If you assume he wrote through the full length of the pencil you could get the erroneous assumption that he actually went through 80 full pencils, when in reality he discarded them only about halfway through their full length. So a normal person's 40 pencils novel draft equals about double that amount for Steinbeck, which is a little ironic considering he wrote a letter complaining about the price of his Blackwings being triple the Mongol 480's he used previously, yet he seems to have discarded them readily after just a few shaves in. He did once say that opening a fresh pack of pencils gave him an energy to write with them which got him excited to work, so perhaps his thinking was to run through a pack in order to get to the next pack and the ritual of excitement to write as quickly as possible.
Either way, the dude was a bit of a nut for getting this hyped for (of all things) pencils. He wrote another letter to his editor basically admitting he was crazy for having this odd habit of writing with them (the word he used was eccentric), but to be fair he lived in the era before the ballpoint pen, so his only options were fountain pens, pencils and typewriters, and he couldn't type, so to spare himself the mess of ink, he must have chosen pencils and just became super picky about what brands he wrote with. At any rate, you're probably not going to find many people who enjoy writing with pencil under the age of 80 anymore. It's about as outdated a writing method as trying to paint your writing on a cave wall with crushed berries. I'm pretty sure only Nelson DeMille and James Patterson are the only living authors with any legitimacy to the claim that they write with pencil, and Patterson doesn't even write his own books, so what does that tell you?
@@harrisonmccartney4878 There is one other author I can name who writes with a Blackwing pencil: Andre Dubus III, and he's under 80. You are right, though. It's certainly something you only see a little of these days from writers. It's either pen, computer, or typewriter. Usually, the ones who draw use pencils, and understandably so.