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Post by DJW1066 on Mar 24, 2021 12:00:06 GMT
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Post by distractedmom on Mar 25, 2021 0:22:19 GMT
The link takes me to the blocked Suez Canal. Is that correct?
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Post by DJW1066 on Mar 25, 2021 12:46:33 GMT
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Post by Mia on Mar 25, 2021 14:19:13 GMT
I bought the newspaper - has a fountain pen nib on the front page... I stopped reading for a few moments when the person says that rollerballs are preferred.
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Post by christyotwisty on Mar 25, 2021 16:23:40 GMT
This revelatory excerpt partly explains why many of my pen pals are readers, and why I like the films I do.
Feeling quite the underachiever for output here, but thankful to be clued into organization ideas. With a rollerball, she needn't worry about bleedthrough, wetness, choices of paper, ink colours, ink mixing, etc.
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Post by radellaf on Mar 25, 2021 16:49:26 GMT
Feeling quite the underachiever for output here, but thankful to be clued into organization ideas. With a rollerball, she needn't worry about bleedthrough, wetness, choices of paper, ink colours, ink mixing, etc. 25 pages a day, however she defines "page", is pretty ridiculous sounding. I definitely wouldn't _enjoy_ writing that much. My introduction to bleedthrough vs paper started with rollerballs. The Pilot V5 I got in 1986 was a wonderful pen that did not get along with all the x-subject notebooks or looseleaf paper that I needed it to work with. The Pilot Razor point was fine enough to handle most paper. A medium Flair felt-tip could be prone to spreading. My first fountain pen was a Sheaffer Cartridge. The M and F were not that different and both were wet. A step beyond the V5, probably, but anything the fountain pen wouldn't write on was also something I wouldn't enjoy using the rollerball with. Pencils and ballpoints. That's all that a lot of paper is good for.
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Post by christyotwisty on Mar 25, 2021 17:19:38 GMT
A friend overseas gave me a Pilot V-Pen the ink of which bleeds through Moleskine and Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks. I haven't found use for the pen since.
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Post by allanorn on Mar 25, 2021 19:14:23 GMT
I bought the newspaper - has a fountain pen nib on the front page... I stopped reading for a few moments when the person says that rollerballs are preferred. Easily forgivable. If that’s their most comfortable pen choice, I’m not going to find fault in that.... they’re sending letters. To be fair, if I had to escape with only one pen - it would be a Parker Jotter that I purchased 25 years ago. Though if I were in that situation I’d be looking to write notes for myself, not letters to others. (It’s more complex if I can take a couple of pens with me.)
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Post by allanorn on Mar 25, 2021 19:22:40 GMT
Feeling quite the underachiever for output here, but thankful to be clued into organization ideas. With a rollerball, she needn't worry about bleedthrough, wetness, choices of paper, ink colours, ink mixing, etc. 25 pages a day, however she defines "page", is pretty ridiculous sounding. I definitely wouldn't _enjoy_ writing that much. 25 sides of A5 is basically six pages of A4/letter, front and back. I might be able to do that in a day but it would take some training; I would probably have to hire a handwriting coach to work on technique and choose a wider nib than Western EF. On the other hand, 25 full pages of A4 a day would be a novel every other week....
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Post by penguy on Mar 26, 2021 0:43:56 GMT
Christyotwisty, just think she doesn't have the fun of dealing with bleedthrough, wetness, choices of paper, ink colours, ink mixing, etc. That is all part of the fun. You start exploring all of the neat kinds of paper, find just the write color of ink for the season or your mood or the person you are writing to, You find the write pen with the write type of nib....a cursive italic for Susan, a little round hand for Tom, extra fine for Bill.
I did like the article. The feelings she expressed about letter writing were write on!
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Post by distractedmom on Mar 26, 2021 14:32:32 GMT
Holy cats, she writes a lot! Though, if I am being honest, I may find myself writing more with the kids no longer in the house. This shift from having both kids in sports from March-July to no sports is quite the adjustment. I kind of miss it, which makes me an outlier compared to most. For those of you who have heard my sob story, my daughter is leaving for her college campus on Monday March 29 and will get to play some softball this spring, so we are all excited here.
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Post by Mia on Mar 31, 2021 14:38:34 GMT
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