Hi, I use fountain pens for several months now to write my journal and I love it. However I always do that in the evening at a desk.

Writing with it on the go always felt a bit off which is why I’m still using a rollerball for that.

Do you have any tips for being able to better use it on the go?

  • Որբունի@jlai.luEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Three solutions I have tried:

    • dirt cheap Chinese pens, at the time the quality control was too terrible and I had to write on carbon paper often enough that I gave up
    • pocket pens, too annoying to get out of a pocket in my opinion, some people tolerate this, they end up being better as regular clipped pens to me
    • retractable fountain pens, the Chinese Vanishing Point clones work great and aren’t very expensive, I’ve had one for a while, wrote a lot (15-20 refills), no issues apart from the paint peeling off, I have not tested the brass for lead