Damon Inferel Posted June 6, 2003 Report Posted June 6, 2003 Poll? A pen or a pencil? Which one do you use?
Valdar and Astralis Posted June 6, 2003 Report Posted June 6, 2003 Uh, think ya got the wrong room mate. *earpoints in the general direction of the Caberet room*
Yui-chan Posted June 6, 2003 Report Posted June 6, 2003 Hm... I agree. Yui-chan carefully picks up the thread and moves it from the Banquet Room to the Cabaret Room. There. Now, have at it, Pennites! ~Yui
Peredhil Posted June 6, 2003 Report Posted June 6, 2003 Both depending on application and/or desired result. (Null Vote)
Ayshela Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 i do a *lot* of my writing at the keyboard. It's nice for many reasons, not the least of which is being able to approach keeping up with the train of thought so i don't completely lose it. And yet, i voted for pen, because there are those times when there is no substitute for sitting down with a pad of paper and my purple pen and letting the words flow.
Xaious, Master of Time Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 Pen. Because the colors work better for my writings and drawings than the drab gray of a pencil. And when pencil IS needed, I have a mechanical pencil, a.k.a. a leadpen. It's highly decorated, and really looks like a weapon (sadistic grin).
Vlad Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 hmm... everybody who posted voted for pen, or not at all, yet keyboard is winning curious
Zadown Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 It's a poll in electronic media, what do ye expect?
Wyvern Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 I voted with the fourth option since I'm uncertain what a pencil/pen is... My guess would be that it's a new kind of pencil that you can transform into a pen, or perhaps a pen that carries liquid lead instead of ink and has an eraser... or maybe "pencil/pen" is an icon for a pencil banging a pen over the head with some spare wood shavings... ;-) Wyvern quickly notes that he should steal the blueprint to pencil/pens and fabricate his own Almost Dragonic variety (complete with faulty erasers and leaky liquid lead cartridges) before getting bashed over the head with several pieces of Cabaret Room furniture for his senseless humor...
Valdar and Astralis Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 Narg big. Narg strong. Narg smart. Narg don no what pen is. Narg use charkol sticks and cave wall.
Aardvark Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 I had a writing impliment that was a ballpoint pen, a pacer and a plastic pointy bit, apparently for use on palm pilots As for the poll, I would vote my long, sharpened nail, inked in fresh human blood, save for three reasons I do not possess a long, sharpened nail My handwriting is illegible I'm too lazy to keep stocked up on fresh human My second option would be some form of speechrecognition program that turns your voice into text, but my fingers are much less clumsy than my tongue for extended monologue Thusly, I choose not to vote, as I believe this to be some clever form of market research that I wish not to participate in You cunning corporate bastards will never outwile me. I am the wiley king, that's right, King Wile. I'll always be one step ahead of you, for you may know every trick in the book, but I was the one who composed the book
autumn_sun Posted June 7, 2003 Report Posted June 7, 2003 mew!! =chews on a pen and splutters as she bites through the plastic and gets ink in her mouth= Ew....X.x ...I prefer keyboards...less work for the people I'm talking to...{{as you know, neko boy...my handwriting is terrible}}
Alaeha Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 For some reason, my preferred medium depends very much on what I'm writing. For Poetry and Stories, I prefer a Pen. Preferably a Gel Pen, with the color varying according to my mood. For Plays, I've found that I'm most at home typing them up with my keyboard, with whatever font I happen to have in use. I never use pencils if I can avoid it... If I must use a pencil, I prefer one of the mechanical variety... Though the idea of long sharp nails with fresh human blood has a certain appeal too, assuming that the blood comes from people I dislike. I even have the required long, sharp nails... though for some reason I can't imagine myself writing legibly with my pinky.
Lady Celes Crusader Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 Well, here's my case. When I draw, I use a pencil When I have to write on a paper, I use an pen. (Although that my writing is calligraphically horrible and therefore I'm shattering the cliché that every girls have a good looking handwriting.) And I don't think I really have to mention when I use a keyboard
Tamaranis Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 Narg big. Narg strong. Narg smart. Narg don no what pen is. Narg use charkol sticks and cave wall. Yeah! Pencil's rock! Down with pens! What?
Canid Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 Am I then the only supporter of the mighty pencil? What greater utensil is there for any artistic medium? A mistake in pen when writing is permanent and my experiences with white-out have not been good. What creature wants a line dashed through their work, or messy scribbles concealing all to obvious blunders? The beauty of handwriting melts before errors in a stark and oft ugly correction. What do people working with wood use to mark measurements on their medium? No line of ink! But a thick line of pencil, precise and erasable incase it has been wrongly placed. And the diversity of pencil in art! The finest of lines from a highly sharpened or mechanical pencil... the textured, broad strokes of a blunt pencil that can be smudged to perfection yet not so easilly marred as tempermental chalks and pastels. Black and white beauty, dull or shiney, exact and correctable... Will any writer hold a laptop upsidedown in bed? But a sheet of paper... Can an artist, even with the most advanced of digital tools create exactly the same effect on their computer as on their page? Do not discard the advantages of simple carbon so easilly... a pencil is a more valuable tool than you think.
Alaeha Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 *Laughs* Very nice... But you forget the hassle value of the pencil. A standard pencil must be sharpened after one, perhaps two pages of writing. The mechanical pencil must be clicked into place again, and when a piece of lead nears its end, it will often slip out of position on you. Many a time, I've attempted to erase even the lightest of pencil markings only to find that I had an enormous smudge approximately two inches in diameter. The line or scribble of a pen is far less intrusive, in my opinion. Granted, if you wish to change an entire line, you may wish you had written it in pencil... But for myself, I've found that the low level of maintenance and the ease with which the pen flows across the page (as opposed to the scratchiness of the pencil) are more than sufficient compensation, for if I wished for neatly written words on an otherwise pristine sheet of paper, I would have typed them up and run the file through the printer.
Katzaniel Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 (edited) What, make a mistake?!?! I say pen because the most often use to which I put my writing utensils is notes & homework. (Sad but true). I find the temptation to erase my mistakes hard to resist when using pencils, but when I use a pen the mistake is there for all eternity and I can refer back to it later. When I'm studying, I can look at where I made my mistakes. A'course, when I hand in my good copy I use pencil, but that takes about a fifth of the time and perhaps one twentieth the effort. Black because I don't like the look of blue pens on paper, and gel pens smudge easily, too easily for note-taking. :pen: :pen: :pen: :pen: (I liked your graphical idea, Canid ) Ah, I see Alaeha makes a post in the meantime - good points, all. Yes.... good points. Besides, as this reminds me, with a pencil I wouldn't be able to save the dead ones (dead, as in all the blood gone from their souls... I wonder if I'm morbid?) and use them for a mobile or some odd purpose when I find one. Dead pencils are too short for much of anything except projectiles... Oh! And I wanted to add a "fact" I heard somewhere, correct me if it is not true, please. Apparently, the American government spent tons of money and a huge amount of effort and created a pen for their space program that could write in low gravity settings. And, the Russians used a pencil.... Edited June 8, 2003 by Katzaniel
Nobody of Consequence Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 I'm wondering if, as a result of this poll, we'll be changing the name of this forum to "The Keyboard is Mightier than the Pen"?
Illianna Wolfsong Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 AH HA!!! The overlooked option! Eraser! Good ones are hard to find, worth buying in bulk once found, and a necessity to keep on hand. However, while writing in eraser tends to reduce paper consumption, it also leaves those fleeting thoughts free to drift on with the first breath to blow on the page.
Tralla Posted June 8, 2003 Report Posted June 8, 2003 As any southpaws in the audience are fully aware, pencil results in the entire side of your hand being coated in lead powder, which is a pain to erase off. (Good) Pen results in the entire side of your hand being stained blue, or black, or red, or *cough* purple ( ) for several days. Bad Pen (ie ballpoint) only really works half the time so you end of with letters half-formed and compositions barely legible and certainly not neater than left-hand-smudged pencil. So, I'm screwed either way. Forget the written media, it sucks. Keyboard all the way, man. I even write class notes via a keyboard hooked up to my Palm. Nothing better than going klackety-klack-klack and waiting for a couple minutes while everyone scribbles to catch up. =D
Ayshela Posted June 9, 2003 Report Posted June 9, 2003 i use pencil when *drawing* but not when writing for one very simple reason: if i'm writing it on paper either it's something i will be typing up and editing later, or it's a letter i'm sending off via snail mail (i can already hear the gasps of shock) and in either case pen simply works better. Pen is much easier to see when the paper is suspended and i'm typing it. For letters - it took me years to convert my best friend to writing his letters in pen, because letters which are going to be kept and re-read later need to be written in something with some staying power. Unfortunately, most of his letters quickly became unreadable simply and only because they were written in pencil. Having lost many of his valued and valuable writings, i developed an aversion to writing *anything* in pencil in case i should wish to refer back to it later.
Aardvark Posted June 9, 2003 Report Posted June 9, 2003 How do you write with an eraser? Unless you dip the page in lead, then kinda erase word-resembling patterns into it...
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