The Write Stuff

[jarandhel]

Have you ever noticed that your writing instruments influence how ready you feel to write? I find this to be the case a lot with me... at times I can't write a word unless I have just the right type of pen with just the right shade of ink, other times I need a 100% all-natural recycled wood pencil to give me the right feeling. Today it seems to be something new... mechanical pencils with colored lead that I saw at Shop Rite while foodshopping. There's something nice about writing with green, purple, pink, and blue 0.7mm pencil lead, in a standard size mechanical pencil. Sort of like the color options of childhood combined with a tool designed for adults... you know?

Comments

Ohmigosh!!!

[daelo.livejournal.com]

Color-leaded clicky pencils?!?! BUY ME SOME OMIGOSH I HAVE TO HAVE THEM!!!

Re: Ohmigosh!!!

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Yeah, I saw them at English Creek Shoprite today... they only come in four colors, a far as I can tell, but there might be more if you look for them elsewhere... they're by BIC. :)

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

Years ago I kept a journal in which I used a bunch of coloured fibre-tip pens to write in. Different colours according to my mood (or maybe whoever was fronting, though I didn't know about that, back then). I once got coloured leads for my clicky pencil, but found that they're not as good as wooden coloured pencils. The leads break very easily, but its good fun while it lasts. We are currently addicted to writing with variously coloured gel pens. Especially the metallic ones.

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[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

So far these seem to be about the same as other mechanical pencils I've used, maybe even a little stronger than standard #2 mechanical pencil lead. And since it gives a much finer line than all but the best sharpened standard colored pencil, while having a thinner barrel as well, I like the feel of writing with it. *grins* I could never write with a regular colored pencil, they feel too thick and the lead wears down so quickly you lose the fine lines I prefer to write with and it feels like I might as well be writing in crayon at that point. The only other colored pencil that I have ever been able to write with is an old Pedgree red pencil, that is identical to a standard pencil in every respect save for the color of it's lead and the color of the barrel. It keeps a point approximately as well as a regular pencil, and feels like a regular pencil when writing, so I've found it to be very convenient. Unfortunately, I believe Pedigree is no longer even in existance, and were subsumed into another company at this point. I forget which one, however.