The Ink Shot archive
From 7 May 2012 until 7 December 2021 The Ink Shot was the blog of Marcus Baumgart, an itinerant café writer, designer of buildings, animal-lover and day-by-day battling creative. This blog celebrates the practice of writing in cafés, writing fiction and non-fiction and being creative in general.
Marcus struggles to motivate without the happy white noise of lively conversation and hissing espresso machines.
Cafe writing in the blogosphere
Check out the PEN USA Mark blog, latest entry here. Good to see one of the world's most obscure topics of conversation elsewhere in the blogosphere! Not surprisingly, the post is about the routines and rituals of writing in cafes as much as the phenomenon itself. We all have such rituals: mine is to stick to coffee only - no food - but lately (it's still hot here in the southern hemisphere, despite Autumn having arrived) I have been restricting myself to iced coffees.