Spen making my phone freeze!

[kitmo]

I am brand new to the Note 8 and have never used an Spen before. Got my phone this afternoon and every time I pull out my Spen and get the semi circle of choices and choose one and go to it, my phone freezes. I just tried again with live message and same thing happened. I had to google to see how to deal with a frozen screen on the Note 8 and that saved my bacon as I was stymied how to get beyond the frozen screen without google's help. What the heck am I doing wrong with the pen to cause this freezing?

 

[kitmo]

I think it has fixed itself. It is not causing the phone to freeze now, and the writing is being detected on the screen which was not happening. First day Gremlins?