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.
New Season of Bob's Burgers Brightens My Day
It has taken two years to get here, but I am pleased to say that the new season of Bob’s Burgers (Season 8) has started trickling into Australia’s iTunes Store. I love this show, it has replaced the Simpsons in my regular rotation. All good.
A Midweek Effort
I’m turning off Netflix and iTunes tonight and putting some time into writing. I made an incremental move last night and somehow something that had been at the edge of my vision crystallised. Just a little bit. Tiny steps taken towards the ultimate goal: not a big leap, just a small movement in the right direction.
It had to do with a vision of a forest