I am trying to learn how to say 'to talk/write/read about smth' in Japanese,
since corrections natives make to my sentences seems not to be very
consistent. For example, let us consider a phrase 'I talked/read/wrote about
pencils'. Particles I want to use are を and で. With 'talked', it seems that
鉛筆を話した is just fine, because here topic kinda fits into my understanding of
'direct object', but 鉛筆を書いた would mean 'i drawed a pencil', while 鉛筆で書いた would
mean 'i wrote with a pencil'. What would one use instead? I tried to search
Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar for で, but with no success.
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grammar word-choice particles
Particles equivalent to english 'about'
について is what you are looking for.

It translates as 'concerning', 'regarding', 'about' etc. Your sentences would
look something like:

> 鉛筆 **について** 話した。  
>  鉛筆 **について** 書いた。

Check [p280 of _A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese
Grammar_](https://core6000.neocities.org/dojg/entries/300.html) for more
details.
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