Do you like a traditional hexagonal pencil, or one of the new-fangled triangular ones? Or perhaps you have one of those triangular rubber grips for ordinary pencils?
Standard HB, or you you prefer something softer - 2B or even 4B?
And as for paper - loose, or a notebook? Laid or Wove?
Then again, I'm not a writer, so perhaps I should stay out of this.