Why did I abandon mechanical pencils for pens?
  
    
  
When I first started writing, I had a thing for mechanical pencils (only the .5mm ones… I was a purist). And I learned to print very small, to cram all the words I could onto a bit of scrap paper.
Perhaps you’ve figured out why I don’t do that anymore… something about trying to see those faint pencil-scratchings while using both hands to type what I’ve written.
Miniscule pen-scratchings, however, are still visible, progressive lenses notwithstanding...
   
    
    
    
        Published on January 31, 2014 02:00