ABOUT
Have you ever wanted to try writing with a fountain pen but you were afraid?
Were you afraid buying a fountain pen would be a messy, scratchy waste of money that you wouldn’t know how to use let alone take care of?
I’ve been using fountain pens (*cheap* fountain pens) for DECADES and I’m here to tell you … it doesn’t have to be that way! Fountain pens — even your very FIRST fountain pen — can be a smooth, pleasurable joy to write with … and easy to take care of! And when I tell you they can be easy to take care of, what I really mean by that is … YOU DON’T REALLY HAVE TO TAKE SPECIAL CARE OF YOUR FOUNTAIN PENS AT ALL!
Write more … clean less!
I used low-end, affordable fountain pens for decades … without ever cleaning them. And they were easy for me to use RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX.
Are you somebody who loves pens and colored inks … but you’ve never tried a fountain pen? I want to share the joy of fountain pens with you and give you confidence to invest in your first fountain pen if you want one. I want you to feel full permission to savor mark-making: to write, journal, doodle, draw and even just smear inky smudges of colors around for the pure pretty fun of it (whether it’s with fountain pens or other writing implements you already know and love).
I want you to know that reliable high-quality fountain pens are available in a super-wide range of prices; you can even get a reusable, cool and totally-effective fountain pen FOR LESS THAN FIVE DOLLARS (that I know from personal experience is an absolute pleasure to write with)!
Why PleasureWriting.com?
I only recently started leveling up my fountain pen and ink collection in 2021 when my friend issued a challenge for us to do morning pages EVERY DAY this year: three pages of stream-of-consciousness journaling. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Even though I’ve always loved putting pen to paper and journaled off and on since my first diary in elementary school, my friend’s invitation and our commitment to each other to do this many free-flowing pages EVERY DAY changed my approach. It opened up the floodgates … and my writing is flowing with more joy and freedom than ever before. Making this site and blogging here is like a decadent gratitude log, wishlist and focused immersive meditation on all of the things I love about colors, shapes, and words.
This site is also a way for me to affirm my love of quiet, solitary pursuits. Totally hyperfocused on simple, sensual pleasures … like the feeling of my Parker Sonnet gliding over the page of my notebook copying a few favorite words from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself in a lush grass-green ink.
After a lifetime of making my introverted ideas of “fun” play second fiddle to more social always-connected-to-others ways of recreating, I’m finally realizing as I approach fifty and learn more about the science of well-being that I — like everyone — need to make time for what I’m best at: the things that make me feel most me. Activities that are “essential, effortless, and energizing”.
After loving a few inexpensive “over the counter” fountain pens (Parker Vectors) for three decades, I’m slowly expanding my FP collection: with more confidence & renewed dedication to practicing mark-making and journaling with pleasure and ease, and blogging about it here.
This site (PleasureWriting.com) is for pure enjoyment and permission to freely do whatever we want with writing utensils and paper (or other surfaces) with an appreciation for affordable tools accessible to lots of people.
PleasureWriting’s focus is to inspire myself and others like me (including fountain pen beginners and others without expertise in fine writing instruments) to
- enjoy whatever tools help us (especially introverts) get into a flow state of full immersion, and
- make fountain pens, journaling, and writing for pleasure accessible … without trying to conform to standards set by die-hard fountain pen collectors, people with tons of money to blow, or online FP enthusiast communities.
Most of all I want you and I both to experience the complete unfettered PLEASURE of mark-making and the tools, toys, colors and other materials for doing so.
