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Have you tried fountain pens?
I try to avoid purchases of tools to accommodate activities that I donβt do
Yeah, that's fair. I suggest them only because they're a bit easier on the hands
Yes. I too like to ruin not one but four pages at a time with my terrible handwriting
What do you mean?
I have terrible handwriting. In top of that problem, I sometimes use too much pressure. And I tend to leave the pen on the paper while I think of what I'm going to write. With a fountain pen, too much pressure means more ink released, which leaves ugly blotches that readily soaks through a few pages.
So not only is the first page ruined by my initially ugly handwriting, the succeeding pages are further ruined with the blotches of ink that soaked through.
Ah, thank you for clarifying. If it helps at all, fountain pens can write with minimal pressure (although getting out of the habit of using a lot of pressure is hard to break [I personally blame shitty ballpoint pens + the intense pressure of standardized tests in the state of New Jersey for why I wrote way too hard for so much of my life]). As far as bleed thru goes, there are different brands and types of paper that help mitigate this too. Even if you're not using fountain pens, I would recommend trying different paper for more comfortable hand writing tasks.
Also, I'm sorry if it comes across as proselytizing. I just really like my current writing tools, and I spent a long time of my life hating my handwriting (and hating writing by hand because of how I'd cramp up). Because of that, I just want to share my experience with other methods