Handwriting, the Lost Art

I'm reading a book about the invention of bookshelves. It's an obscure topic, I know. Writers are like that. We get excited about strange topics. I daresay most people with a passion tend to be that way: ship captains like reading historical log books, my handy-man father likes reading manuals of all kinds, and collectors will read brochures about whatever it is they collect.

Writers also tend to follow tangents. Bookshelves to the books on them to the writers who write them to the tools with which they write them...

Enter the Writer's Circle on-line magazine. In "Why You Need to Start Using a Fountain Pen Right Away!", the author writes a short history of the fountain pen and how it works, and fnishes up with why a wordsmith might enjoy such a personal writing utensil. Think of it as akin to a potter with her clay on the wheel: a fountain pen allows the writer to almost literally feel the words flow onto the page.

"Flow onto the page" -- I wonder if that's where this idiom comes from....

And off on another tangent!