#writerscoffeeclub 4/1: Share a tool of your trade
#FountainPen - the accumulation of pens and inks isn't *just* because "Ooh, shiny!" A few years ago my mild migraine switched to extremely severe chronic migraine, as in continuously for a year and a half. I couldn't look at a screen for months.
I was stuck at home on sick leave for three months, unable to look at the tv, unable to use any computing device larger than my phone screen, even unable to listen to a lot of audiobooks because higher pitched voices were too painful to listen to. I did have several fountain pens.
I wrote large chunks of two attack novels by hand in those three months. In one of my rare 5 minutes of being able to look at a screen I managed to buy a writing slope. I have severe RSI and wouldn't be able to use a ballpoint for that much writing, but managed with a fountain pen and slope.
Of course, I then recovered enough to return to work, which for several years used up all my capacity to look at any computer screen bigger than a phone. First job when I finally could use a computer at home was the novel I'd almost completed when it first hit. Now onto the handwritten ones.
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