Ever since I started keeping

Whence did the wondrous mystic art arise
Of painting speech and speaking to the eyes?
~William Massey
I was trying to write a letter calligraphically today, and for some reason I used little embellishments on my Es, like this:

After showing the sample to my mom, who wasn’t to sure about the Es, I wondered where I had [...]

The sidebar of this site says that Word Miner is “a place to discuss all aspects of writing and saying, from pronouns to pens.” The pronouns have come up before, but some pen-talk is past due.
I think everyone has pen preferences. One blogger I read likes space pens. A friend told me not to long [...]

“My mom is one of those people whose handwriting looks like all L’s,” said Tony. We were in an English class I took last semester, and the discussion had briefly centered on the topic of reading cursive, especially in old manuscripts. What I didn’t know then was that there is a name for the [...]

Shari Wilson, a college teacher for years, noticed that many students in her composition courses earned about a letter grade higher when they wrote their essays in class. She tried to figure out why a real paper and pen made such a big difference in writing quality, but she could only speculate. One of her [...]