Tragically handwriting is a lost art particularly in the 21st century. It’s quite easy to tap away on a laptop or other device to create your next project. In a world that demands results yesterday, it’s faster and more efficient with a device with built-in auto-fill, auto-spell corrections and easy-to-access dictionaries. And it’s here to stay.
Notwithstanding writing instruments have their useful and practical place in the 21st century outside of a museum or the Smithsonian. In fact, they serve as a surprisingly effective pathway to the cutting-edge devices that you’ll eventually use to complete and polish your masterpiece. Akin to mechanical watches, handwriting is making a comeback – in baby steps. According to scientific experiments noted in a New York Times article entitled "What's Lost as Handwriting fades" 2 June 2014, there’s strong scientific evidence that a unique neutral circuit is triggered causing more activity in the brain.
Using a writing instrument allows you to probe deeper into your thoughts and subconscious to uncover and unravel ideas from your mind and transfer them to parchment – an intimate spirit to body connection. You become more thoughtful, pensive, and creative as new concepts percolate in the gray cells, race down your arm, then your fingers and ultimately through the fountain pen triggering the ink onto the parchment. You create something in which the only electrical signals are human. When the nib of my fountain pen kisses the parchment a distinct creative connection is made.
Personally this ritual unfailingly jolts my imagination. It becomes animated and eagerly transfers its wondrous insights through an age-old medium. You ultimately create, give birth and share with the world a better and deeper vision of your ideas and spirit. Speed is not the important criteria rather depth of intention.
The writing instrument is the tool that builds your creative foundations whether it’s an outline or a comprehensive overview. This is the blueprint prior to the cement pour, the rebar to add strength to the concrete. In the final stage you resort to your high-powered laptop to fill the foundation and build your masterpiece skyward.
If you’re going to do this right, you need the right quality writing instrument, something unique, preferably even dedicated to your specific endeavors. There are numerous cool styles for writing instruments, particularly fountain pens, that range from futuristic to Art Deco design. I have a small collection from which I select one depending on my project or mood. For example, for this journalistic piece I used my Mont Blanc Starwalker for the general outline and edits before committing it to a computer screen. Shockingly most fountain pens are quite affordable. You don’t need the Rolex of fountain pens to ooze confidence and success. Match the writing instruments with your personality and profession and make them an integral part of your creative and spiritual ascendancy.
The NY Times article 2 June 2014 “What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html?_r=0
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