Pens Week: Modernizing Writing in Ink

Pens have progressed a lot since my days of admiring then in the stationery aisle. There had been a pen variety where the shaft of the pen changed colors, even if just to a different color tone, once the user's body heat had been applied to the pen's shaft for a few moments. This was very impressive, though I'm not convinced, as I write this, that it still remains so.

It was a nifty, cool, quirky something different in ink writing options & I took to it. Our family was out on a special trip, thus justifying this otherwise unlikely acceptable purchase.

Popular options today seem to promote gel, like these, & erasers of every matching kind, like these. I wonder today that I'd be less enthralled with the available "nifty writing options" manufacturers are offering consumers. It's a different generation out there (have you read the Mindset List? 😂)...One that's enamored in all things digital & in using data. Thus, writing implements are of another world. (Might those children even ask, "What is an 'implement'?)

I used to highly dislike the fine tip pens, preferring only to write with the rollerball (medium point) ones - though now manufacturers have blended these two together & gel pens seem to be offering the same writing stability that I once relied on the rollerball pen options for. I'd find that, as I held the pen's shaft, dragging it along the paper, no ink would appear, & it wasn't because the pen had run out of its ink. It was because it wasn't a rollerball pen. I'd not had these same difficulties with rollerball pens & so I came to rely on them, disregarding any which weren't ... Then these gel options came along somehow mixing the best of both worlds.

There's still a pleasing reliability to the writing edge of those basic rollerball pens of yesteryear & when the going gets rough & we all just want to "go back to the basics" we can always pick up one of these or these, smile & be content.


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