#FediWriMo2026 is quickly approaching. Here are all the details for the upcoming #FediWriMo event:

The event schedule is as follows:

🖋️ Dates: November 1st - 30th, 2026

🖋️ The goal is to #write a 50,000 word novel over the 30 days of the event.

🖋️ Making the effort is more important than achieving the goal.

🖋️ Posting excerpts is optional.

🖋️ Usage of AI Writing Tools is not allowed for this event. Human creativity is the focus of this challenge.

🖋️ Updates will be posted on the FediWriMo Community.

If you are interested in participating:

➤ Sign up on feddit.online and join the FediWriMo Community, or

➤ Join !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online from any Lemmy, Mbin, or PieFed instance.

➤ An unofficial progress tracker has been set up on TrackBear. You can join the tracker using this link, or using the join code: c541dfab-06c7-490a-904a-b0e53a85bff1.

➤ You can use any progress tracker you like, and post updates to the FediWriMo Community as often as you would like.

➤ Follow @nanowrimo2 from Mastodon, GotoSocial or other platforms for daily prompts and updates.

➤ Use the event hashtag: #FediWriMo2026

I hope you decide to join us this November!

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My retro inspired watch from Japan is inexpensive, quirky, and quite unique. In this case, the story of the company is every bit as interesting as the watch itself.

A recently lost item in my house allowed me to #relive a bit of my #childhood while indulging in the world of #EDC again.

These two #Bulova #watches are easily in my top 5 watches. I love the #stories of them, and I love the #aesthetics.

A story of giving Citizen a second chance.

Additional photos: Citizen Classic & Zenshin Photos

When I started using Fountain Pens last year, I noted that there was something different about the quality of my writing. It seemed to have a different quality to it. At first, I couldn't figure out the reason for it. But as I kept writing I meditated on the subject. As I turned the idea around in my mind for a while, I came up with a few thoughts seemed to explain what I was both feeling and experiencing.

You've probably run into some Obsidian evangelist espousing some convoluted system of organizing all their notes, and building some knowledge base.[...] This isn't that article.

I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?, and found myself writing a lengthy response. But, after I wrote my response I reread Brennan's article and found myself in a bit of a quandary.

[…]

While he presented the counterpoints, or counterarguments to these positions, he didn't seem to treat them in the same manner as his primary arguments and points. That has caused me to think about his article from a different perspective.

I'm still new to typewriters. Looking around, trying to figure out what I should get. I did (do?) have a very old Underwood in the attic, but want to get something else.

I've been collecting a lot of images of water lately. This is the outgrowth of a post I made on Ennui Vagaries bout repurposing weather camera photos. [...]
While collecting a bunch of the sunset images tonight, I thought of the song Downstream by Supertramp.

Listening to Harry Partch is like going on a surreal archaeological dig through history. Only this is history reinterpreted by someone who has been taking shrooms for two decades. Yet, with the emergence of microtonality in the music of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Angine de Poitrine his works are more relevant today than ever.

I have been nearly obsessed with finding a good set of Parker 51 clones. I've had several (from Jinhao and Junlai) that have been disappointing. While they had the look and filling mechanism that I wanted, many of them would fail in terms of writing well, or in drying out. What exacerbated these purchases was that they would all come up when searching for a “Hero 601” on Amazon, which is the pen I'd seen reviewed that was often praised.

My Casio Lineage watch is one of the most worn watches in my collection. It's a nice dress watch that isn't too formal and works well with just about anything I want to wear. Recently I found a sporty twin for my Lineage watch. Here's a comparison.

I don't recall any point in time where I had any interest in fountain pens. I was born well after the time of the fountain pen, and there weren't any relatives in my family that had any special attachments to fountain pens.

This morning I installed a music player that I am unfamiliar with, and decided that the first thing I should listen to is Angine de Poitrine Vol. 1 and Vol. II since I hadn't listened to them in a while. And then I found, by coincidence that they played the Montreal Jazz Festival last Saturday (June 27th, 2026) and broke the attendance record set by Stevie Wonder in 2009.

Are there any good modern lever fill pens? The only brand I can think of that is still making lever fill pens is Conway Stewart. Are there any others?

Four months ago I posted about this quirky pen I popped into my shopping cart on impulse one night while grabbing some supplies on Amazon.

Well, after that original post I didn't use the pen. I put it away in a case and I forgot about it. Recently, I bought a new, large pen case and moved most of my pens into that case. While I was doing so, I realized I had a bunch of pens that had been sitting around, inked, but unused, including this one.

Last night I pulled out ten pens (five Parker 51 clones, Lamy Safari, Hongdian M2 Brass, Hongdian C1, TWSBI Eco and this Wilknd) to clean out.

Of the pens I pulled out: 2 Parker 51 clones, the Lamy, and the Hongdian M2 Brass had dried out / failed to write. But the Wilknd, the one that was in the case the longest (except for the TWSBI and Lamy) worked immediately. After four months that pen was writing up a storm like I had just filled it and started using it.

Just goes to show: name brand isn't everything. Even the cheapest, no-name pen can perform as well as, and possibly better than a brand name pen.

This must have been a #mistake. LOL I picked up this 5 pack of Kokuyo Campus B5, 100 sheet #notebooks for $6 per book. Most places list an individual book for $10-$14 USD.

I'm using these books for my daily writing now. Mostly because of the price, compared to an Apica CD Premium #notebook priced at $16 dollars, the Campus seemed like a reasonable option. I've seen that Doodlebud has compared these against his Muji paper, and thought that it was comparable. But since I don't have access to Muji paper here, the Campus is the best option.

These do hold up to #fountainpen usage. While I mostly use a fine nib, I have used a medium and even a broad nib with it, and it's been good. I don't know if it would work well with a 1.1mm nib, but I may try it at some point.

Just refilled my Asvine V200 pens. I go through almost a full fill of #ink in them every 12–13 days. I didn't think I would be filling these #fountainpens as often as I am, but here we are... Guess I just #write that much with them.

Left to right these pens are filled with Diamine Jet Black, Oxford Blue, Aurora Borealis, Writer's Blood and Imperial Purple inks. To their right is the Jinhao x750 filled with Wordsworth & Black Lavender Purple.