My Bear blog feels like a fountain pen.

I bought an entry level fountain pen recently, which is something I'd been thinking about for a long time, but I hadn't gotten around to it until a few weeks ago. Even though I had years to research the purchase I just impulsively grabbed one labeled "for beginners". (It is a Pilot Kakuno, for pen-knowers.) It is so nice to write with! I don't know if it's just this pen or if any fountain pen would have worked, but it's much more enjoyable than a normal pen, though you do have to be more careful. I've gotten ink on a few things, and just a week or two in I made the mistake of trying to rinse some dried ink off the nib in the sink without realizing I could wash the entire cartridge of ink down the drain. That was my only ink cartridge so I had to wait for more to arrive in the mail. And going back to a normal pen (a Sharpie S-gel, which I'd previously liked!) I found myself writing a lot less. When the ink arrived I was writing more again. It's kind of an unfortunate lesson because…