I agree about the pen. I burned my old writing too, even though it was good. I felt it was too positive and cheerful, go figure.

I did do a writing prompt this morning. I kept it nonfiction, but I could have written a story or poem out of it too. I used the paper & notebook approach too. I always wrote in pen or pencil growing up because it's not like laptops existed or smartphones or tablets. If you were luckily enough to have a desktop, MS Word was in very early phases when I graduated.

We never had to turn in typed papers in high school; just ink, cursive, (which my daughter's school doesn't even teach anymore) and white-out for mistakes though excessive white-out lowered your grade. My school did not even have a computer lab, and I learned to type on an electric typewriter, which really sucked on timed typings if a key got stuck or near the end of the assignment, you made an error and would need to use white-out, and then had to debate between starting over or getting points taken off for the white-out.

Now I feel old...LOL.