I love writing by hand, I find it very soothing. I have a fair sized fountain pen collection. None of them are very expensive, but they are nice and they make me happy. It is surprising how different fountain pens are, one to the next. The way the ink flows, how wet or dry, does it start reliably each time, or take some fiddling to get it going, etc. This is my personal experience,…
Inks also vary more than you would expect! I don't have a vast collection of inks, because I want a very specific thing: water proof (or at least water resistant, so a drop of tea won't wipe out what I've written), and I like dark green and black colors. My general go-tos are:
I feel this is the most reliable ink. If a pen is being a bit hard to start, I use…
Lovely! One of my go-to journaling notebooks.
Great because they are affordable, but the paper is lovely for fountain pens.