Writing tools

[Trivun]

My mom used to work as a consultant for a UK slimming company called Slimming World, she doesn't now but she was given about 300 free ballpoint pens from them during her time with the company. Hence she offloaded about a hundred to me when I started universit, I'm almost finished with my first year and I've only used about 4. I have enough pens to last until doomsday, I reckon (so about three years and seven months, and ten days... ).

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

My Sharpie pen!

I am such a Sharpie addict that I went out and got it the day it hit stores and I have been using them even since.

 

[JMeganSnow]

I like fine-point Zebra ball pens, preferably not the gel pens although I can tolerate those. I lose pens all the time so I'd never buy an expensive one, but the Zebra's are good quality for the price. They can be tough to find, though.

 

[traceur_]

A pacer with 0.07 graphite, or a ballpoint pen with a sharp tip if it's really smooth to write with.

 

[Flying-Emu]

My grandpa's set of fountain pens from I think... 1950's? Although I only use those for letters and when I'm manuscripting at home with my big stack of college-rule paper.

When I'm abroad, I usually have a standard 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch notebook with around 500 pages of college-rule in it and a small pouch for pencils/pens on the front. I usually have two or three of my favorite 0.7mm-lead mechanical pencils in there, as well as a big pink eraser and a box of extra lead.

But I always have my notepad; about six inches tall, with a yellow cover and scribbling of ideas all throughout the pages. I've got a good eleven plotlines half-sketched out in there.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Gel Pens for my checks, Sharpies for my discs and any vandalism, and a keyboard for anything more than a page. Other than that, I could scratch a stick in the sand.

 

[Neonbob]

I love the kind of pen that bleeds into paper if you don't move it for more than a half second. The Pilot Precise V5/V7 are my favorites right now.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

A laptop.

 

[NeoDeath90]

I'm a pen man, myself. Not sure what attracted me to them, but I ust like them. It makes everything seem more professional I guess. But mainly it just makes it easier to doodle on the back of the notebook I'm writing in.

 

[Yegargeburble]

I prefer a 0.07 mm mechanical pencil. No idea why, though...

 

[fuzzygenius]

I use yellow Ticonderoga pencils, #2, on plain printer paper. Ticonderogas are the best traditional pencils out there. And I like to erase, and have never liked how erasable pens erase, so I stick to pencils.

Of course that's just paper. As for boards, I love chalkboards (I'm a math grad student, we write on 'em pretty frequently). I'm really not a fan of whiteboards - can't really explain why. I especially love real slate chalkboards, but those are really hard to come by nowadays, and rarely get installed new, due to their expense. They do make for truly amazing writing surfaces, though.

 

[SharPhoe]

Microsoft Word, Comic Sans MS, 14 pt font.

As for drawing, I use mechanical pencils and plain white paper. But I would kill to get my hands on some Dixon Oriole or Ticonderoga #2 pencils again...

 

[zakwak01]

I agree lappy then you can back space delete edit and take with you where ever you go.

 

[Thurston]

Keyboard, mostly.

For handwriting I like 0.5mm mechanical pencil.

 

[Spinozaad]

My handwriting isn't that pretty, but since I do prefer to 'structure' my writings on normal paper I use... well... Paper and a pen.

Whenever I got the stuff finished, I work it out with Word or OpenOffice and publish it to the world!

Or, more often, let it rot on my harddrive because I feel it's not good enough to be published.

 

[Lolcano]

2mm graphics pen with 2b, Shame I'm left handed it just ends up smudging all the time.