Slight tweaks tailor last week’s currently inked — which was chosen by my good friend, BF — for the upcoming heavy-hitting work week.

Taking myself out of the decisionmaking for pairing inks with pens shakes me from my rut of rotating between the same inks and same nibs over and again. The excitement of trying a new pen-nib-ink combination is what starts me writing and working and scribbling. Novelty generates words, for me. So, I invited my good friend (and father-in-law), BF, to serve as my currently-inked-chooser-most-exalted.

I aimed for a spicier monochrome. Spicy translates into a true blue ink to accompany Blizzard’s teal-forward hue and a yellow-green to stand out against the other five understated ink colors. Shading forward and true to hue.

The Inkvent calendar facilitated a fun new tradition in my household: the Inkvent Draft. Here’s the rub: each person gets to keep seven colors, chosen NFL-style over six rotating rounds. The undrafted are gifted to folks at the next pen group meetup. Perks of having a family member as stationery obsessed as me.