Particles equivalent to english 'about'


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.




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.

