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.
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.
More cafe writing in the blogosphere
Check out this post I just found on café writing here. Nice to hear someone discussing the rituals and etiquette of writing in cafés, even if it has taken me over a year to find this particular blog entry! I also hadn't heard of David Mamet's book 'Writing in Restaurants'. Guess I am behind the times: it was first published in 1987. Oh well! Better late than never. Sounds like it doesn't have much to say about the act of writing in restaurants, at any rate: nevertheless, I will check it out.
The sheer exuberance of life
I found this image and I was blown away by the way it captured the sheer exuberance of life being lived and debated in a café. The title of the picture is "Discussing the war in a Paris café". I am not sure which war the caption refers to, but overall the image captures something that I love about café culture.