Finding ways to use a fountain pen

Once I started collecting fountain pens, I sought ways to use them, ways to add writing into to my everyday life. It didn't take me that long to consider writing a journal. In August 2006 I finally purchased a large Moleskine and put pen to paper. I picked the perfect time too. The coming months provided plenty of subject matter. I renovated a 1920s house, moved in, got married, had a fantastic honeymoon in the Maldives, got made redundant, got a new job, we became expectant parents and then in December 2007 became actual parents. The first book took just over a year to fill the 240 pages, and even though it is only recent history we have found ourselves looking back at "what did we do this day last year?" Some entries were only short, others are pages and pages of writing. The memory of writing itself is a pleasurable one too. I remember clearly sitting by a pool in the Maldives before dinner, watching the sun go down, sipping a cool beer after a hard day scuba diving then pulling out my Lamy Studio and putting memories of the experience to paper. The colours of the fish, the different species, the beauty of the flight of eagle rays. If you collect fountain pens and don't keep a journal, you should try it. Your journal might become a fond friend like mine.