I don't think it's a "growing up in the '90s thing" per se. I did exactly the same thing in 2012, when I was 15. My penmanship never got all that good, but cert

I don't think it's a "growing up in the '90s thing" per se. I did exactly the same thing in 2012, when I was 15. My penmanship never got all that good, but certainly it got better than the awful state it was in before. I also started studying Japanese, which gave me thousands of discrete reasons to use the my penmanship. I never got too obsessed with the equipment though, decent paper (the stuff that doesn't gunk up on the nib) and a Lamy Safari (EF nib) were perfectly adequate.