put pen to paper

• set pen to paper

put pen to paper (third-person singular simple present puts pen to paper, present participle putting pen to paper, simple past and past participle put pen to paper)

1. (intransitive) To write something (especially using pen and ink).
2. (intransitive) To begin to write something.

• pen and paper

• “put set pen to paper” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• “put set pen to paper” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “put pen to paper”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “put pen to paper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “put pen to paper”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “put pen to paper” (US) / “put pen to paper” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.