Soylent Green is Made out of Bics!! · 8:46pm Sep 12th, 2017
Rants that bother nopony but me-
I do a lot of my writing by hand. That's right, with a pen. In a paper notebook. I designate one such book as my 'drafting book' of the moment, and that's where I make all my rough draft mistakes. I then combine my 'one readthrough' proofread phase while transcribing the text to a computer, to create a final, digital draft.
It sounds like a crapload of work, but I enjoy it. There's something cathartic about a pen and paper (not to mention I annoy fewer folks around me with constant typeytype noises). It helps me to keep up the practice of immersion writing, and since I do a complete readthrough anyway, typing it while I do so really doesn't bother me.
Until I run out of ink. And the only thing I have to reach for is a BIC.
Ballpoints are bad enough (archival FTW, but gel will work too), but Bic, there ought to be a law against you. All those Sharpie fine-liners, .45mm Sakura microns, and so forth, and I run out of ink without any of them handy, with thoughts I still need to get out on a page...and all I have is a Bic.
I bet you don't know anybody who is bothered by something like this to the level I am (if at all), or who is bothered by the fact that a Zebra G-301 runs dry after a pathetic 3,000 words. Why even manufacture them with such a ridiculously short life? I can get 25k easily out of a Micron!
The moral of the story is to keep a Micron handy. Or just, yanno, not be so anachronistic. Don't hold out for that one 
I spent the day with a head full of words that needed writing, and nothing but a phone without batteries, so upgrading to the 21st century does not fix the issue at all.
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Well, I'm on my way to buy the entire supply of Bics from Staples so that I can rid the world of them in a conflagration of Doom. Perhaps we can include some 21st century devices as well.
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I'm personally fond of Frixion pens, but that's because I make so many mistakes.
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Are they erasable or something?
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Yes. And unlike the erasable pens of yesteryear, they're not shit!
Personally I like the fact that they're heat-activated and reversible: you can make the ink reappear if you put it in the freezer. It's not useful, but it is cool.
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I admit that the very idea of erasable ink makes me shudder, but perhaps the technology has gone past the terrifying Paper Mate days of old.