New Beginnings with A New Name for a New Day
JAM (Justin had decided on the pen name JAM. JAM would be his new name). The truth was that some very kindly and considerate people he had met on the airplane had told him that Justin Mustardseed, or was it Jason Mustardseed? whatever, was not a cool name for an author. “OK, Let it be JAM,” said Justin decisively and boldly.
JAM had two mechanical pencils and a Bic pen in his backpack. Ah! to write! Justin, …er…JAM sat with a Pike’s blend coffee in the Starbucks’. He had a cushioned seat and a large table along the back wall. A long rectangular table – onto which he now placed his pencils and pens. His notebook – a packet of 8 ½ x 11’s folded cross-wise – lay silently before him.
Jam picked up a mechanical pencil. Justin, er JAM, was of the opinion that mechanical pencils wrote more pleasantly than the old wooden ones. (Please see earlier post where Justin’s obsession with writing instruments is discussed in greater detail)
JAM began to write. It would be a Quadrille.
An Occasional Story or Magazine 
I can only assume Justin er JAM lived during the days when the computer was not yet the ‘in’ thing. It was probably in, as in ‘in’ a high security place like NASA but not yet ‘out’ enough to be the ‘in’ thing for authors.
Does that make sense?
It does? Great! Please explain it back to me because I did what all authors are advised to do – simply write!…. With a pencil.,,,,, a mechanical pencil.
Yes Jason is a Luddite. But he has mechanical pencils too. Now to get over that writer’s block!