Editing The Pen Addict 267/transcript (section)

== Pen Addict Ink ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's because I'm delimited. So I wanted to bring this up on the show to see. So when I think of a pen addict ink, I think it has to be orange.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' In my opinion, orange ink has been solved. I don't think I can make an ink that is any different or better than what's on the market. Like there's a handful of orange inks that I think are the ultimate orange inks like Sailor Apricot, Papier Plume, Sazerac, um, a few other ones. Like there's orange ink to me has been solved. I don't know what I could do to make a better orange ink than what's out there. So I have had some conversations about doing a different ink in a, I mean, a non-orange ink, but I haven't committed to like the colors. Like I'm sure the colors I'm thinking of have been solved to some degree, but maybe there's something a little bit I want to try in a different color range, you know, in the blue, black, purple, green, bright blue type of area, not in the, not in the, the pink end of the spectrum, but in the darker end of the spectrum. So would that be seen as a proper pen addict ink? So that's my dilemma. Like I haven't finalized anything. I've had preliminary conversations because I want to do an ink. Like this is the 10, the 10 year anniversary, um, of the blog comes up in November and I haven't done anything to prepare for that. So I'd like to do some things for that. Um, but I'm real having a real dilemma on the ink thing because I don't think I can make a unique enough orange, even though I think people would buy it. Um, because they always do and people are lovely, but I want to, I kind of want to do something else, but then I'm also dilemma. Well, would that be the pen addict ink? Do you have any thoughts on, on this?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think it would be nice, but I really think it would be strange if you did any cover other than color other than orange. Yeah. Right. Like it's like, here's the official pen editing and it's green. Be like, uh, you know, like maybe you could do that in the future, but I feel like the first time you ever do something like this, it should be pen addict orange, but that's kind of my, that kind of already exists in a million different ways. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Like, yeah. Like there's oranges. I just love it. I'm like, can I do better than that? Right. That's not like, that's why I don't necessarily release a lot of things because a lot of things are really good already. And I don't just want to release another thing. I want to release a good thing, like a great thing. So, yeah, I, you know, Tony's mentioned in the chat room, you should, I need an entire line of ink. I've actually thought of a three pack. Um, that would be a way to do both, right? You get the orange, you get whatever other color I'm coming up with and I come up with a third, something like that. Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. That makes a lot of sense because I feel like that way you could do more and still have an orange, even if it's, you know, not necessarily not the best, but like, if it's not like the most standout color, right? You could make the orange that everybody expects and then be like, well, here are some other colors that I think are really interesting.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, well, and then I do a blue black because that's my favorite to use. And then I pick one more mountain. See, I had, see, I had to talk this out. That's actually what I told Jessica in my reply. I said, I want to talk about this on the podcast because I don't have clarity and I need to talk it out. So this is helping me. So it sounds like the three pack thing might be, I'm not so sure about that, but I'll go with that. But yeah, I could do a three pack. I'm writing notes here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I just opened up the business notebook and it's all going in there. Well, no, I've thought about this before, but I am, you know, as you talk it out with other people and you get some, some feedback, you know, maybe it's a, it's a good thing to, to just kind of hash out. So anyway, I want to make an ink. I kind, I'm kind of planning on it. It's no guarantees. I just don't have all the answers yet. And I've been hung up on the orange aspect of it. But, um, I I'm hearing your input, which was necessary. And then you kind of, it kind of lines up with what I was really thinking is like, it doesn't make sense if there's not an orange in there. Like it doesn't add up. So, um, we're either going to go orange or a set with orange. I think that's the, uh, the kind of way to go.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Way to do it.