What Do You Actually Use Your Pens For?

[Floreat]

I understand that there are a lot of business people here who take notes every day, and a fair few students too. I'm not currently working as I'm ill, so I mainly use my pens just to write stories and letters to my young godchildren. I really love writing with them in general and trying out calligraphy, but I don't typically have cause to use them every day. Occasionally I use them in artwork - not much though as FP ink is so fugitive, so I prefer to use artists' quality watercolours and inks.

 

So, what do those of you with huge collections of ink and pens actually use them all for?

[perth]

I alternate between cradling my preciousses whilst whispering sweet nothings and writing in school with them.

[Wheatflower]

I write letters, lists, notes to myself, and story rough drafts.

[HandLikeAFist]

I edit books, pen and ink on paper, not on a computer screen until I finish the job.

[mallymal1]

I try to use a fountain pen, whenever I need a writing instrument. This is at home, out and about (photography and climbing trips), and at work.

[Lorna Reed]

At home for shopping lists, notes to self, letters and greeting cards. At church, for official documents, such as marriage registers, baptism and confirmation certificates and anything else requiring neat handwriting.

[Art]

Journals, food logs, exercise logs, calendars, postcards, letters, notes, lists, crossword clues/words, my daily word list - always trying to learn new words.

[kmart_security]

At home writing. I've tried at work but a ballpoint is much more safe for me in a pharmacy.

[Lyander0012]

I do quite a bit with my relatively small collection, actually, since I've made a point of getting different nibs where possible. My fine nibs (Taranis, Ahab) are for note-taking during meeting etc, my medium nibs (Lamy 2000, Sheaffer Prelude) are for journalling, though I haven't written an entry in quite a while, as well as writing correspondence to my pen pals. I practice italic calligraphy with the 1.5mm nib on my TWSBI 580, and pointed-pen calligraphy with my Waterman, though it's quite a bit stiffer than my dip-pen nibs. Also, I doodle with the Naginata-Togi nib on my Sailor 1911, which I also use for writing letters depending on my mood. It's been away on spa leave for a while, though, so I actually haven't used it in a while.

 

 

Cheers!

Kevin

[Charles Rice]

If I need to write, I use a fountain pen.

[Runnin_Ute]

I rarely use a ballpoint, roller ball or mechanical pencil anymore-wood pencil even less, although for some underlining in books I may use a colored pencil-sometimes even prismacolor.

 

 

But most day to day is fountain pen. Notes, lists, correspondence, journal etc. Forms (carbon/less) I use a bp or rb.Not many of those recently.

[jar]

I use my pens almost constantly to stir coffee, open cans, poke holes in drink boxes, open beer bottles, clean nails, reset clocks, as tent stakes when camping, planting flowers, ...

[playtime]

My job, which requires note taking, composition, and editing.

[mallymal1]

I use my pens almost constantly to stir coffee, open cans, poke holes in drink boxes, open beer bottles, clean nails, reset clocks, as tent stakes when camping, planting flowers, ...

 

[I.M.]

I use my pens almost constantly to stir coffee, open cans, poke holes in drink boxes, open beer bottles, clean nails, reset clocks, as tent stakes when camping, planting flowers, ...

what?! Not as cat toys??

[Mezzie]

I teach writing, and I do every assignment my students do. In order to show my writing process, I try to start pieces on different topics for each period (that also keeps me from getting bored). That means on a day I'm modeling writing in all my classes, I can run through the ink in all my work pens.

 

I also grade, write creatively, respond to notes from parents, write letters, journal, write grocery lists, take notes for my night classes, etc. I only use non-fountain pens when the paper is horrible or I need to make carbon copies.

Edited August 23, 2014 by Mezzie

[napalm]

as tent stakes when camping, planting flowers, ...

 

MB 149, eh?

[tendollarword]

Notes, lists and crossword puzzles. I'd like to keep a journal, but my life is too boring to bother recording.

[A144]

I use a FP for almost all the writing I do.

 

At school, all my notes and assignments are done with a FP. I take notes on Rhodia, so I'm good with pretty much whatever ink I've got in a pen at the time.

 

At home I write notes, lists, and my weekly schedule in my Midori with a FP. I've also been practicing my handwriting over the summer, which I do on decent paper.

 

At work (in a pharmacy) I do almost all my writing with a FP. Make notes and my to do list (or I'll forget stuff I'm working on throughout the day), take scripts off the phone, or write something down for a patient. The only thing I can't do there is write on the labels we put on bottles. Ink just takes too long to dry on them.

[PAKMAN]

I use a Fountain pen for most every writing task. I journal, work crosswords and Sudoku, sign checks, make todo lists, sign documents, write the occasional letter, sign greeting cards and take sermon notes in church.