I had a thing for ink reservoir pens, and went from ~daily journaling to not at all and would go to write a letter and find a sticky mess. (It having been three to six months.) And there are darn few handwritten letters nowadays.
The RSI motivation makes perfect sense; fountain pens are lovely to write with. (I think it was a Sayers article that pointed out fountain pens weren't necessarily or perhaps commonly carried full in Victorian or Edwardian times; you sat down, filled your pen, did the writing, emptied the pen, and put it away. Which seems very reasonable compared to dip pens and really awful compared to the modern options.)
I still have a weakness for fancy titanium body pens that take a broad range of refills, in my case nigh-always Fisher space pens. I tell myself that this is so I have a robust writing implement for birding, but there's a lot of shiny involved.
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Date: 2018-08-12 01:33 am (UTC)The RSI motivation makes perfect sense; fountain pens are lovely to write with. (I think it was a Sayers article that pointed out fountain pens weren't necessarily or perhaps commonly carried full in Victorian or Edwardian times; you sat down, filled your pen, did the writing, emptied the pen, and put it away. Which seems very reasonable compared to dip pens and really awful compared to the modern options.)
I still have a weakness for fancy titanium body pens that take a broad range of refills, in my case nigh-always Fisher space pens. I tell myself that this is so I have a robust writing implement for birding, but there's a lot of shiny involved.