How-To: Create a Penseel Person

After reading all these pages on my stationary and their funny/sad/weirdly perfect/perfectly weird backstories, you might get inspired to create your own penseel fantasy world, and I, J. Tiff, am here to help you with some ideas on how to create a Penseel Person.

Step One: The Name

A good idea to find a Penseel's name is to look at the "name." For example, the brand SMOOTHGEL created a pen, called "GlideLine". You can choose "Glideline" as the first name and use "Smoothgel" as the last. However, if you have multiple pens that are the same brand, you can choose to name them differently so you will be able to tell them apart. For example, if you have three SMOOTHGEL GlideLine pens, each red, purple and silver respectively, you could name them Scarlette, Royale and Sparkla Smoothgel/Glideline. Two same-brand penseels of the same/similar color can become twins.

Step Two: The Age

First, choose a birthday. This is optional but wil make aging easier. Second, choose the age--you could choose any age. But if you, like me, can "see" the penseel's personal appearance aging will be a piece of cheesecake for you. For example; when I see an entirely pink pen, I see a pink-loving teenager...age 13. And then I see a black marker with a flower pattern...I see...a grandma. Seriously, don't you know most grandmas like flowery chlotes? Age 61.

Step Three: The Personality

This depends entirely on your imagination. Your penseel could be shy with big dreams, or he/she could be a celebrity, or he/she could be so gabby she wouldn't need to take a breath if he/she kept talking for hours...but I have some fairly interesting ways to classify penseel personality.

Method 1: Ink (for Pens)

I like turquoise-colored thin ink. If that's the color my pen writes, (s)he'll be given a good personality. I HATE too-inky, deep blue-colored (indigo) pens that are somewhere between a ball pen and a black gel pen so those won't get a very good personality. Basically, give personalities depending on your favorite and least favorite inks.

Method 2: Appearance (for all others)

Depending on whether I like their shape, design and size or not, I give personalities.