Pencil or pen?

Snickerdoodle9 · Post by **Snickerdoodle9** » 08 Feb 2015, 15:29

I find that pen is the best for me. If I write in pen then it is easier to see when I type it out on my computer. I also find it easier to see when I write in the car or in the dark. Also, if I don't use pencils then I can't erase which puts tears in my paper. Of course, for some people it is different, but pen is my personal preference.

Braktooth · Post by **Braktooth** » 10 Feb 2015, 11:23

I hardly ever use pencils anymore, although I still have a lot of them (old school, not the mechanical ones). I use pens for figuring out ideas, for structuring things, for notes. All my real writing I do on the computer now though.

I still really like the act of writing though. especially if it's something personal. I still write letters, on occasion.

Gustavsson · Post by **Gustavsson** » 11 Feb 2015, 16:25

Well first of all, keyboard if it's a major project.
But if not, pencil all the way. No mechanical pencils either. I really love the feeling of a wood pencil, and I even enjoy sharpening them.

fluidity · Post by **fluidity** » 11 Feb 2015, 21:25

A fine nib pen always, a medium nib never!

jeriretz · Post by **jeriretz** » 11 Feb 2015, 21:30

Pencil, but it must be absolutely sharp- so I keep a few handy so I can keep going.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 11 Feb 2015, 22:28

I type everything at my computer when I write, but when I design furniture on graph paper, I prefer pencil. I can erase mistakes and make design changes/measurement changes. We actually have one of those old-fashioned wall-mount hand-pump pencil sharpeners in our kitchen--it came with the house. Anyone else have one? They rock.

Braktooth · Post by **Braktooth** » 12 Feb 2015, 20:44

zeldas_lullaby wrote:I type everything at my computer when I write, but when I design furniture on graph paper, I prefer pencil. I can erase mistakes and make design changes/measurement changes. We actually have one of those old-fashioned wall-mount hand-pump pencil sharpeners in our kitchen--it came with the house. Anyone else have one? They rock.

I used to have one, then we moved. I should have pulled it off the wall. You're right, those things are great.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 12 Feb 2015, 21:39

Braktooth wrote: I used to have one, then we moved. I should have pulled it off the wall. You're right, those things are great.

Ooh, I feel your regret. Sigh. Maybe you could find one on eBay! Humor me here, I just discovered the View More Smilies link...

sethkcaz · Post by **sethkcaz** » 12 Feb 2015, 22:30

I prefer pen. I use pencils when sketching but when it comes to writing and doodling, it's the pen.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 13 Feb 2015, 14:14

Braktooth wrote: I used to have one, then we moved. I should have pulled it off the wall. You're right, those things are great.

This comment is probably neither here nor there, but I'm upstairs in my room right now and my dad just used the downstairs pencil sharpener--I could hear it. OK, I'm starving and must eat.

lady_charlie · Post by **lady_charlie** » 13 Feb 2015, 19:00

ink
black
fine point
roller if ya got it

pencil for math tho

and no mechanical either

but my dad used mechanical pencils

so I can't say I am old fashioned

CataclysmicKnight · Post by **CataclysmicKnight** » 13 Feb 2015, 20:40

ALWAYS a pen! You don't have to worry about sharpening, tips breaking, etc. And I never slow down to erase anyway (pffft, like erasers work more than 10% of the time), so regardless there's a lot of scratching stuff out.

Also, I'm a huge pen snob, and love to try out as many as possible, but I always prefer black pens, as fine tipped as possible, and typically the felt-tipped (not roller-ball) are my favorites as they don't randomly smudge like roller-balls do. The fact that the ink is usually so heavy that it's easy to see through the opposite side of the page ruins the ability to use both sides, but it's worth it.

Edit: as a lot of people point out using pencil for math and the like, I'll admit that even though I end up rewriting semi-often, I still prefer a pen for coding on paper when I pseudocode. I feel more accomplished looking at a page with lots of scratch-outs than fighting with the (previously mentioned) failing erasers.

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 13 Feb 2015, 21:29

Oh no, cataclysmic night, you've triggered one of my buried memories with your eraser talk. HA HA HA.

Before I entered kindergarten, my mom took me to this posh local school to take their eligibility exam. (Apparently, they only admitted 5-year-old prodigies, or something.) The exam-giver gave me a pencil that had been cut off--no eraser. He asked me to draw two overlapping triangles. I drew them with all the lines and then I politely asked him for an eraser so that I could erase where the overlaps were. He told me that I wasn't allowed an eraser. I knew then that I had failed his test.

The whole drive home, my mom kept trying to get me to tell her how I did. Needless to say, I didn't feel much like talking about it.

Jeepers. I'd better play that Pharrell song now. What a freakin' sad story!!

CataclysmicKnight · Post by **CataclysmicKnight** » 13 Feb 2015, 22:22

WOW! So, at five years old or what not, you were supposed to assume you couldn't erase once you'd drawn them? It's a good thing they don't do that with stars, I still can't draw a star without drawing the five lines and leaving all the extra stuff in the middle!

zeldas_lullaby · Post by **zeldas_lullaby** » 13 Feb 2015, 22:56

Yeah, right? I'm glad I didn't get in. I bet the classes were torture. Shouldn't your main goal as a kindergartener just be to not eat the paste?

Hey, I draw stars the same way!!