How Often Do You Write With A Fp

[Vesna]

Hi there, I'm a pen newbie and i wonder how often do you actually use your pens? I mean if someone has more fountain pens, how often do you get the opportunity to actually use them?

So far I can only think of writing a journal, shopping lists, postcards and that's about it. Unless you are a student or professional writer, of course.

Can you suggest more opportunities to write?

[LizEF]

You could use them to complete logic puzzle grids... Or to doodle. Take notes in meetings at work?

 

[ppdiaporama]

It depends of the time of the year for me.

 

In Winter, where I have a lot of leisure time, I carry a holder with 3 pens ... I write with them everyday. I rotate them about once a week. I don't usually keep a pen in my rotation for more than 2 weeks. I sometimes have a few extra pens inked up on my desk at home.

 

In Summer, I only carry one ... usually a pen with a large ink capacity as I don't have as much time to maintain them.

 

And of course ... I have a desk set always inked up at the office --the FP gets used maybe one a week, the BP, next to never. I also have a Platinum Preppy that I keep in one of my binders. It doesn't get much used, but it's always writes when I need it to.

 

edit; fixed some typos

Edited December 28, 2016 by ppdiaporama

[gryphon1911]

I write every day and with a lot of different things. I have meeting notes, regular notes for when I'm working. I write a letter to my wife every day and send letters to my family once a month.

 

I journal, I practice calligraphy with both broad pen and hand drawn lettering.

 

About the only thing that I keep completely digital is my calendar, as things are very dynamic.

[omad119]

I use them at work for note taking or doodling during boring briefs. Otherwise at home for the occasional handwriting practice, cards, etc.

[iveyman]

I write with fountain pens every day, practicing writing on Clairefontaine notebook, using my vintage flex pens and LE ST Dupont pens etc. My pens are inked with different colour inks and the notebook looks quite colourful. I make sure every pen is used once daily.

[View from the Loft]

Every day at work, shopping list, journal, paying bills by cheque, birthday cards, Christmas cards, to do lists, currently completing an evidence portfolio for a coaching qualification in FP.

 

The possibilities are endless ...

[PAKMAN]

I write my checks, write in my journal, make lists, work the daily crossword, Christmas cards, etc.

[TheRealMikeDr]

I use one for work notes and one for my daily Todo/Remindr list. I try not to have more than 6 or 7 inked at any given time and just rotate them around. When one runs dry (I don't put more than a smidgen of ink in them - they usually last 2 to 3 weeks) I flush it out and ink up a different pen.

[rwilsonedn]

Daily, both at work and at home. The only times I use another kind of writing instrument are when I don't have one of my pens at hand, or when the material I'm writing on is ink-hostile. (To be precise, most of my writing at home is with dip pens, not a fountain pen. But work is almost always fountain pen.)

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[Freddy]

XI

 

 

Fred

 

I'm learning to fly around the clouds But

What goes up must come down

 

Tom Petty &.............................................next track

 

Already Gone

 

Eagles

Edited December 28, 2016 by Freddy

[ItwasLuck]

I write with my 1.3mm Pd stub all the time, even to sign receipts!

[linearM]

I use my pens pretty much daily. Most of my sketching for the past 6 years has been with a fountain pen. I'm an avid letter writer, usually 2 to 5 letters per week. I practice handwriting and specific script styles and I doodle with my pens. Since I use both cursive italic and flex nib pens I usually sit down and just see what they are capable of or what I am capable of doing with them.

 

Then there is always pen maintenance: cleaning, flushing, filling and repairing. I guess that isn't using the pen but working with the pens to keep them in shape and ready to write.

[WmEdwards]

I use my pens any time I write, for everything I write, unless having to bubble in a form with the dreaded #2 pencil. Thankfully, that is getting rare.

[Manalto]

Many wonderful scenarios have been mentioned where a fountain (or dip) pen is useful. I can only add that, once you start using a pen with which you can connect and whose results give you aesthetic, rather than merely utilitarian, satisfaction, you'll find yourself doodling, drawing, writing messages, etc. purely for the sensual gratification. If this isn't happening, you need a better nib/pen/ink!

[LizEF]

If this isn't happening, you need a better nib/pen/ink!

 

Or paper.

[jar]

If I write it will be with a fountain pen.

[Bluey]

I write in my journal every evening and when I'm learning topics (read and then write down all that I remember), but with a hint of to-do lists, cheques, and boredom doodles.

[Bookman]

I write with an FP off and on all day most days I'm at home. Better to measure how frequently I put my pen down to do something else. (About once every 2-3 hours.)

[tamiya]

I pick one up every morning to cross off yesterday on the calendar. Usually a different colour each day

 

I'll use FPs to write on CDRs that I burn these days... wet ones write just as well as felttips on Inkjet Printable surfaces.