How Much Do You Write With Your Pens ?

[rochester21]

I don`t know if anyone asked this question before, but i think it`s a good one.

So here on FPN we all love our pens- but how many pages per week do you write with them? When i`m attending college, i write about...10 A4 standard pages per week- more or less. It would also be interesting to find out what nib size to you use the most. I like medium-fine nibs(western standard).

Edited September 27, 2012 by rochester21

[dali3464]

It varies widely for myself. During school term, it can as many as 40 A4 sheets (both sides typically) a week through homework, lecture notes, revising material, etc., to as little as maybe 5 sheets if it's a quiet week and/or the business of the occasion requires PC work rather than pen-to-paper.

 

For pure leisure, I write perhaps about 10-20 A4 sheets a week of non-productive nonsense. Most of it consists of ramblings, journal thoughts for the day and the never-ending pursuit of better handwriting/calligraphy.

 

Edit: Oops, forgot to mention which nib size! I generally prefer a extra-fine/fine Western standard. My handwriting can get awfully cramped at times if I'm annotating so I haven't really graduated to anything above a fine for the past several years.

Edited September 27, 2012 by dali3464

[AloofObserver]

I'd say 14-25 pages per week on 21x30cm Clairefontaine lined paper. I write from edge to edge (meaning I ignore the margin) and don't skip lines. The average is probably closer to 16 pages.

 

I use a fine Sheaffer 444 (the nib on this pen is stub-like imo), a medium Sheaffer 300, a fine Lamy Safari, an extra-fine Vanishing Point, and a medium Kaweco Sport. In the morning, when I pack my bag, I choose which ever pen I feel like using for that day. There is no method to it...

Edited September 27, 2012 by AloofObserver

[inkstainedruth]

Well my journals tend to be about 5" x 8" or so (I think it's roughly half of an A4, which is apparently slightly larger than US standard letter size of 8-1/2" x 11"); at 3 pages a day, that's on average 21 pages per week at that size, or roughly 10 pages of A4, right there (okay, this past Saturday I didn't -- but in my defense I had to get up at 6 AM and be on the road in about 30-40 minutes). Maybe another couple of pages of random notes and lists and the Sunday crossword and such, in addition to the journal, depending.

So, about about 12 pages overall per week of A4, unless I try to write fiction or take extensive notes, in which case probably a couple more.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Oh, and I tend to write fairly small, so I generally have fine and medium nibs, as well as a couple of Noodler's pens with the F-M flex nibs; in the journal I tend to write 2 lines for every ruled line, since I can't always find unlined journals for my budget.

Edited September 27, 2012 by inkstainedruth

[IWantThat]

Tons! I keep a journal of daily activity for my parrots, and I've gone back to school so I'm always writing something for my classes. I also use my pens regularly at work. I sign letters, draft documents, take notes, etc. I also use them for writing at home. Yeah, I use my pens a lot. I tend to rotate the 3-5 I use each week so they all get a turn

[USMCMom]

I've never really thought about or kept track of how many pages I might write, but I write with my pens every day or night, depending on my work schedule. Writing with my pens never takes place at work, as I'm at a home improvement center with concrete floors.

[Rubicon]

I tend to need to refill every day and a half or so, but I don't keep track of how much I write. I take lecture notes and write pretty much everything with my OMAS right now, and in terms of sheer volume of notes, I would say about 5 pages (A4) a day, on Clairefontaine notebooks. I avoid typing when I can.

Edited September 27, 2012 by Rubicon

[mooshi]

Pilot Prera, Fine nib w/ Noodler's Legal Lapis

• letter sized paper
  
• one sided
  
• college ruled
  
• I write margin to margin
  

I write about 20 pages each week. It took me a whole month before I had to refill my ink cartridge. I should have done it after about 3 weeks, since it started to write dry and hard to start by the 4th week since there was little ink left.

[N2theBreach]

Hard to say, really. I work full time, go to grad school, plus keep journals. I estimate 14-28 pgs. Per week.

[PAKMAN]

Probably only about 4-6 pages including my journal and scribbling on pads. Lots less than before I retired!

[wyldphyre]

I don't have much need to write on paper, so I try to find as many excuses as possible in order to use my pens. I take a small number of notes and scribbles at work, but most of what I write is at home in my journals. I'd estimate about 3-5 A5 pages a week, on average. Really not a lot, and because I use fine Japanese nibs or extra fine Western nibs I don't have to refill often at that rate.

[tmcneil82]

Probably about 20 8.5 x 11 pages a week, mostly at work. I do write on both sides, but if I get to the end of something (say meeting notes, or project definitions) I won't write any more on that page, so I can keep them organized. I also write with f-m nibs, and the paper is all pretty near college ruled.

[Pfhorrest]

Easily, 50-60 pages A4, front and back, and 10-11 pages of music composition and theory exercises.

[ethernautrix]

I fill up a Moleskine/Markings/Rhodia Webnotebook (the ~5"x8" size) about every five weeks or so.

[ronw]

how many pages per week do you write with them?

 

I both write and draw, so I do a fair amount of pen mileage daily. Typical use:

 

Namiki Falcon for drawing, usually 1-2 cartoonish illustrations, or a coloring-book type illustration for my granddaughter. 1-2 sketches as well. The drawings and sketches can sometimes be quite dense with ink - one page, but a lot of pen inches. <g>

 

As far as writing, I will use either my wife's Sailor or my Montblanc for writing many times during the day. I'm a writer by trade, and newly getting back into writing by hand. So a typical day might involve a part of a short-short story, personal journaling, a poem or two, engineering notes related to my day job, and so on. I might write in several different notebooks.

 

I just love the feel of a good pen on good paper with good ink. Call me crazy, but I will pull out a notepad or journal and just start writing for nothing but the pleasure of putting words on paper.

[pienaar]

I use a Sustainable Earth 8.5 x 11 note pad from Staples 7 or 8 pages a week. (Sometimes more) I mainly use my Ahabs, they hold lots of ink. Their nibs I would say are finer then my Safari extra fine.

[dickydotcom]

I do most of my writing taking notes in interviews.

The longest interview I've had took 20 pages of A4

More usual is 5 pages.

I aim for one job a day but have dealt with as many as 5.

I guess a weekly average including writing in my journal and other notes at home could be 50 pages.

I have 30 pens and usually about 8 inked at any one time.

 

Dick D

[tonydent84]

Seems from the forums that I write way too much. For notes I write dozens of pages (sometimes per day)...in class only about 10 pages, but the notes are so spaced out, I'd say I can condense 12 of those pages into perhaps 2 pages of tight text. On my own, from studying to pleasure writing (fiction, thoughts, etc.) I'm well into the 50s or more. I can easily fill up a 5 subject notebook in less than a month. I enjoy studying more when I'm writing things down. Sure it takes longer, but for me I can remember things better if I constantly write them down as opposed to just looking at a PowerPoint screen or textbook page. It seems that 65% or greater of my wakeful life is spent writing .

[WhosYerBob]

I used to write 10 to 15 letters per day, but that's dropped off to nothing these days. I've gotten so busy with work, home, photography, blogging and other stuff that I rarely write a letter at all anymore. However, I do use my fountain pens everyday for general needs at work and home.

[Paddler]

I write about five sheets per day, letter size, double spaced, both sides, plus editing. M or B nib for writing drafts and F for editing. F or XF dip pen nib for posting to a journal.