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    InkStains January
    InkStains January
    InkStains January
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    InkStains January

    By John Urbancik

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    InkStains is a random collection of stories – fiction and nonfiction of any genre – handwritten daily over the course of a year.

    When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing.

    He took one mandatory day off monthly.

    Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs – all genres – everything was open, so long as they were complete.

    These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included.

    He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I’m biased. You decide.)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Urbancik
    Release dateNov 30, 2014
    ISBN9781311260673
    InkStains January
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    John Urbancik

    John Urbancik is a writer and photographer currently residing in the Florida panhandle. He has lived in other places and is probably best known for his fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror stories and books.

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