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“I don't recall any point in time where I had any interest in fountain pens.”
Proceeds to write blog post about their interest in fountain pens that started last fall.
For me, it forces me to slow down my writing and make the letters right. My scribbling with a fountain pen looks so much worse than scribbling with a ballpoint or pencil, and I already have difficulty reading what I write with ballpoint or pencil. Now that I’ve used fountain pens for a bit, I write slow enough with other writing implements to be readable.
Okay, fair, was really saying that before last fall I'd never had interest in fountain pens… And I've been here some 50+ traversals around the sun by our planet…
That's where I started, but not (completely) where I stayed. I find that writing with a fountain pen makes me more intentional because I need to be able to read what I've written. But instead of just focusing on penmanship I moved to journaling instead.
55 here and also started last fall, though I had a calligraphy set as a kid. My executive dysfunction and poor memory won’t let me keep up with a journal. I usually forget to journal for a couple of days, then my brain says “if you didn’t do it for two days, why bother doing it today?” A couple of years later, I have another pretty notebook with three pages of writing.