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Why Fountain Pens?
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Welcome fountain pen enthusiasts from around the world! Share your fountain pen obsession with fellow enthusiasts. Pens, inks, paper - everything fountain pen related is welcome!
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.
I kept trying to journal on my computer, but I would do it for a while, not write down anything useful and then just give up.
With the paper journal I just started writing, and the focus required using a fountain pen brought out a different side of my writing… Then I did something that really helped:I started keeping a list of everything that I wanted to write about. Once I had that list it was easier to commit to doing it every day — my brain treats my adding stuff to a list as a commitment.