I have looked into getting into fountain pens myself, if I’m being honest. I love the idea of them. And I do own one. I do not know if it’s a good one or not, I just bought it on Amazon when I was looking for a new pen (I ended up with six new pens). One thing I discovered is, fountain pens really don’t work well for people who have shitty handwriting. It just gets messier.

They also don’t work well with my field notes as they tend to bleed through. Maybe I’m doing something wrong, or maybe the pen I bought is shit, either way, I didn’t care for the experience.

Joel’s experience, if he writes about it later, might get me into trouble too, as fountain pens aren’t the only kind of pen one might start a collection of.