original: The archetypal pencil may have been the stylus, which was a thin metal stick, often made from lead and used for scratching in papyrus, a form of early paper.
simplifications: The first pencils could have been a thin metal stick made from lead used for scratching papyrus. The common pencil may have been a thin metal stick, made from lead and used for scratching in papyrus. The archetypal pencil may have been the stylus. It is a thin, metal stick. A common material was lead. It was used on early forms of paper, like papyrus. The archetypal pencil may have been the stylus, which was a thin metal stick. It was often made from lead and used for scratching in papyrus, a form of early paper. The archetypal pencil may have been the stylus. It was a thin metal stick, often made from lead. It was used for scratching in papyrus, a form of early paper. The idea of the pencil probably originated from a thin metal stick made from lead that was used to scratch on an early type of paper. The most typical pencil may have been the stylus. It was a thin metal stick that was usually made of lead. The original pencil may have been the stylus. The originals were a thin metal stick, often made from lead. They were used for scratching in papyrus. Papyrus was a form of early paper. The standard pencil may have been like a thin metal stick, made of lead and used to scratch on early forms of paper (papyrus). The archetypal pencil may have been a stylus. It was a thin metal stick that was often made from lead. It was used for scratching in papyrus, an early form of paper.