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.

 
 

 
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The Ink Shot is on the move

Dear InkShotters, for the next couple of weeks I will be in the Philippines, taking my little laptop and notebooks up in the air to land safely in Manila, for a thoroughly ex-pat kind of holiday in a friend's rather lavish apartment. Think mornings spent swimming in a resort-style pool, lunchtimes spent sampling the local food and coffee, and day trips out to islands and volcanoes. Nice! Will I post from Manila? Almost certainly, but it depends on whether I get any writing done. Chances are I will be relaxing too much to write, but we shall see. So adieu from me: watch this space for updates.

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