Editing The Pen Addict 222/transcript (section)

== Fountain Pen Day Event ==


'''Cary Yeager:''' It was Saturday night, and everyone had their pens out, and everyone said, oh, can I check this, check this? And this one came out, and I realized I had cleaned it, I had no ink, so I'm like, we have ink at the table? And I found ink, and I just was like, yep. And that's how it is. Here, here's a bottle, slide it on down the table like a shot glass full of vodka, and you fill it up and just pass it off. But I have no idea what ink is in it, and it's beautiful blue ink.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That sounds like a great Instagram contest. Just get some people's guesses, take a little, do a little swab, put some guesses out. You know, Ricky at the San Francisco Pen Show, he had a contest running the whole weekend where he had, I think it was 45 or 48 black inks, and asked people to like, it was a blank sheet, and you had to name each blank ink. How impossible is that? I never saw the results.

'''Cary Yeager:''' I can't even imagine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I don't know that I'd get one. I can't imagine. I could maybe pick Sailor Nano Black out of the pile, just because it feels different when you write with it, but that's about it.

'''Cary Yeager:''' That had to have been a great show. That's a show that I wish I could have gone to. It was just out of my price range for what I do. Yeah. But I was glad you were there, and the San Francisco crew, what they've done to that show is just amazing. I really was unhappy all weekend that I couldn't have been there for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, well, we hated not seeing you there, and plus I could have gotten like a black and orange Fountain Pen Day shirt. That would have been sweet. So maybe next year we'll hold out hope, because that show's worth the trip. It was great. It was a great time. Absolutely. Yeah. So what's next on the radar for you? You have Fountain Pen Day coming up. You got Colorado Pen Show coming up. What's the big picture looking like for you these days?

'''Cary Yeager:''' The big picture. The big picture. I, you know, by working with Ed and then doing that show and then doing Philadelphia and being able to be more involved in the social media side, because it was a natural progression with Fountain Pen Day to do the social media end of it. That I have helped a lot of the shows with their social media, which helps me to get to the show, you know, by going there, you know, by doing the Miami show and like the Baltimore show for Bert. You know, I do all the social media for him as well. And, you know, it kind of balances things out. And I want to continue to do that. I know I'll be doing the Baltimore show. I'm sure I'll be at the Philadelphia show going forward. But it's just about continuing to do it as much as possible, you know, where I can and continue getting the vendors involved, getting the retailers involved, because they really fuel a lot of it. You know, people order from them all the time and having them, you know, I try and make sure I give them at the end of the show. Well, I'll hand out the bookmarks to the vendors and so that they can send stuff out. And I'm like, especially if you send stuff across the pond, you know, when you send international orders, put stuff in there, you know, and it's, it's not to promote me. It's to promote the day. It's to promote that there is something out there to let their interest and let their, because you never know who you're going to get in touch with. And, you know, what club you're sending to, you know, when you send a Tomo River pad out, you know, you'll send one of those out and a club will order it and they'll just rip the sheets out and pass them out at the next meet. And suddenly when they have those bookmarks or pins or stickers to, to pass out, they'll say, oh, we have to have a meet that weekend. You know, and that was always the driving force behind having it on a Friday, you know, bring your favorite pen to work, engage somebody at work, you know, for that day. And then you have all weekend to celebrate, to get together with your friends and do something or have a writing committee get together and, and, and just bang out some letters and, you know, and figure out, you know, using your creative juices to do something.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And it's been awesome to see it grow. Um, these, these past several years, um, it's looks just, you know, fantastic as usual. You can tell all the hard work you put into it. And, um, you know, if, if someone wants to get involved in, in Fountain Pen Day, it tell everyone how they can get in touch with you and where to find you online.