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Having to get up mid-lesson to sharpen your pencil was far too anxiety inducing hahaha

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Story of a teacher’s life when the kids drop and create a mess with the sharpener.

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I don't miss using pencils.

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Thinking on this. Realizing... I *do* miss pencils. The feel of the wood. The fragrance. The smoothness across the page. The softness of the visual result. The act of erasing (and how the effort of it feels different from deletion. :)

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I think I like them for drawing, but not for writing. I certainly drew an awful lot of things with graphite between the ages of, say, 3 and 30.

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what's your favorite writing implement? :)

(I'd love to see some of your pencil drawings! :)

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Definitely a full-sized keyboard. The one on my laptop will do just fine; there's a beautiful symphony between both hands and my brain that I'll never get if I'm writing with my right hand, holding a pen or pencil. Also: my handwriting is pretty bad.

I'll have to get around to taking some pics of my old drawings! If they're from age 10-15, they're comic book covers. After that, I stepped out on my own and started creating characters and just embracing the process of learning to draw (mostly in high school and college).

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oh! i love that image of the symphony between both hands and brain. truly never thought of it that way before.

looking forward to the drawings. :)

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