Anyone in NYC know where I can buy some really good red pencils that don’t break every ten seconds? I’ve barely been editing with these ones for half an hour and I’ve already gone through four of the little monsters from hell. Enough!
Justine Larbalestier
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what kind have you been using? you can always go to flax …
I’ve been using crappy cheap ones. What are flax ones? Where do I get them? I confess to complete red pencil ignorance.
sam flax is on west 20 between 5/6.
http://www.samflax.com/
faber-castell is always a good brand choice!
sharyn: you are my hero!
always happy to help!
Ticonderoga Checking pencils (in Carmine Red) work well for me and don’t seem to break easily. Staples should have ’em.
Does it have to be a pencil? Would red pen would just as well? No sharpening required!
Anon,
ha! would those red pencils that keep breaking be the promotional pencils that we were passing out? they kept breaking even as I was sharpening them…
Richard: I’m using a ticonderoga “the preferred choice of teachers” right now. So far the one pencil has lasted me all day. A miracle!
Shelly: it’s gotta be pencil because the press says it’s gotta be pencil.
kdlink: nah, after the horror of the pencils I bought myself I couldn’t face trying one of your giveaways given what you told me about ’em . . .