Editing The Pen Addict 211/transcript (section)

== Stationery Crisis ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, there's like an existential crisis going on in the stationary world. Everyone's like, when do I, we'll get into it later, but sorry, everybody. Sorry for making you think.

'''Ed Jelley:''' I know, right? So, when we first, the first time we had Ed on, it was like, how to get started in stationary blogging. So, now we're going to have Ed on how to stop stationary blogging.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And the cycle's complete.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Yeah, it's going to be, we're going to have a good bookend here, so that should be fun. But no, it's going to be a good conversation and one I know Myke and I are looking forward to and the listeners are looking forward to. So, let's get a little bit of follow-up. We tend to do this, Ed, because Myke lives so far away and when we get the new field notes, I tend to get them first and I give my thoughts and then we wait a week for Myke's to show up. Then he gives his thoughts. Ed, do you have the byline edition? Are you, you're.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I bought two packs like a, like a normal person, but I accidentally opened both of them. So, I don't know what happened.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Way to go. You're, you're not a true field nut then, which is probably a good thing. I don't know. It's a, it's a thing. It's a thing. So, Myke, you got yours in. I want to, I want to hear about it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. So, my subscription arrived and then today the additional two packs that I bought arrived as well. Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, I found it and I tweeted a picture to you. It's in the little, well, I guess what would be where they would kind of put the practical applications. Right. Um, they have like a bunch of terms by journalists. So, I'm trying to find, what are they called? Talk like Ben Bradley is the, is the heading. Was he the guy who wrote the little newspaper that went inside? Or am I missing something else here?

'''Ed Jelley:''' No, the little newspaper that went inside was from a story from like the 1800s.

'''Myke Hurley:''' All right. Well, let's forget about that then. But they've got like a bunch of little terms that are used in journalism. And then there's also on the other page, there is like a common proof reading thing. There's loads of stuff in here. Like source guidelines. Like how to judge on and off the record. Which I found really interesting and preferred to the regular practical applications. Like I like it when they do this. Like with the national crop and stuff where they actually have information about the crop that is being spoken about or kind of highlighted by each individual edition. Right. Um, so the paper is really great. Uh, you might need to help me out a little bit with differences here, but it feels thicker. It's one of the most fountain pen friendly field notes that I've used. Like I was using like my music nib and stuff and it's barely pleading through. So I, I've personally, I'm really happy with the paper. I think it's fantastic. Um, I am surprised how much I love the format. Like the size of them, I think is superb. And I've been using it over the last couple of days on my desk when taking notes on shows and stuff. And it's kind of fantastic for me. And the reason being is once I edit, so I take notes like timestamps of the points that I need to edit in the show. I then need to refer to those when I'm actually editing the show. So what I typically do is stand the notebook up just below my monitor. So I'm able, so I'm not like framing my neck down to keep checking the times. So because of the really long format of these and because the cardboard sticks out at the bottom, it kind of stands up quite nicely against my iMac. Like I kind of prop it behind something and I'm able to kind of pick off my notes real easy. So it's been really good at that. Like it's just, I don't know, it just, it just fits quite nicely for the use case that I would use it for anyway. Uh, I really like the pocket on the inside, as you said, I think that's just a nice little touch. Um, it's kind of weird and wonderful this edition, which reminds me of arts and sciences. Like it's a good format for a specific use case and it's different. And I, and I think that's why I like it. Uh, and plus it comes with a really cool sticker, which is immediately taken home on my iPad.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Yeah. Yeah. I saw that. That was a good, good placement, sir. Very well done. So Ed, what do you think about this edition?