Boxing writing in America is a storied tradition, where the pen has often been as mighty as the punch. Legendary writers like A.J. Liebling have crafted narratives that transcend the sport, capturing ...

So why not find a good pen and some paper and get started ... I think Virginia Woolf said it best when she called letter writing “the humane art.” Writing by hand is a powerful tool for ...

A fine fountain pen is a lifetime companion, but even a well-engineered, low-cost refillable rollerball should be desirable enough to make you want to keep it around. Here’s our guide to the ...

And with a new pen in hand, after just a weekend of doodling ... There are certain people for whom letter writing was an art if they knew that they were doing it even as they were doing it.

Now, I draft everything by hand with a fountain pen before transferring it to a computer. Writing with a fountain pen demands mindfulness. Each stroke is intentional. They are finicky and need to ...

but that’s what writing was limited to for hundreds of years. When fountain pens first came along, they were revolutionary, albeit expensive and leaky. In 1900, the world literacy rate stood ...

For many, I suspect, the death of handwriting will be hardly felt, and most younger students will scarcely know what they are ...

It lasts longer and is less prone to smudging, but it can be described as ‘scratchy’ when writing. The free-flowing fountain pen ink causes less surface tension when writing and you don’t ...

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