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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Declaration of Influences

In no particular order:

  • Giovanni Boccaccio

  • Italo Calvino

  • Jorge Luis Borges

  • Geoffrey Chaucer

  • Jeff Noon

  • Lewis Carroll

  • Stanislaw Lem

  • Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen

That is all.

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Check this out: an Australian author

Just stumbled across G.L.Cromarty, and her website. Spread the love and check it out!

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Found! A Good Piece on Writing in Cafés Across Several Continents

Nice piece here by Neil Stewart on writing in cafés. 

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