Make sure the cotton is damp and then you can use the homemade stylus to control your tablet. A replacement stylus isn't cheap; Samsung's S Pen is $30 and Apple sells its 2nd generation Apple ...

I’m curious, now, to see the inevitable market of pen clips created especially for Apple Pencil to develop. Pentel Sharp Automatic Pencil 0.5mm is sold for around $10 for two on Amazon.