I’m fussier about pencils, actually…must be 0.5mm lead. Like pens, it has to feel good in my hand. Pens – ballpoint, and I’m particular about how smoothly it writes/the ink flows. I prefer blue ink with a fine nib.
Have you noticed that pens write differently on various types of paper? I’ll borrow someone’s pen, love it, buy one, and then it doesn’t perform as well as it did when I borrowed one.
Remember those pens where you could select which color you wanted to use? Fancy-schmancy! :D