Thread: how's your handwriting

I've been practicing and now I'. No longer embarrassed by my handwriting. How about you? How do you feel about the value of good handwriting?

Your handwriting is not bad at all very legible!

Your picture posting is a little off!

These new fandangled machines confuse me a little. I'm proud of myself that I was able to figure out how to post a picture at all

My hand writing changes with my mood. It's not consistent, although some thing's I seem to be able to repeat. Not sure why it is so horrible, I mean I've been practicing all my life . Now my Dad's is very precise, and neat, guess I didn't get the hand writing gene....

My handwriting is terrible. It looks like a three year old took dictation for me.

I would love to improve it, but haven't really ever found a good way to practice.

We had some Civil War era letters that contained amazing handwriting. (I have since sold them) I found my favorite capital and lowercase letters of every letter of the alphabet and retaught myself to write. Just like in first grade. I felt forced to do this because I could not read my own handwriting and was forced to print which in most situations, like taking notes, is too slow.

After a while I got to a point where people would recognize my writing and ask me to do invitation cards for them. Fast track about 3 years and I've digressed a bit and am due for a first grade level practice recharge. Write out page after page of AAAAAA's, BBBBBBB's, .... yyyyyy's, zzzzzz's.

Besides identifying what an ideal letter style is for you and practicing, it's also important to use your SHOULDER muscles instead of your wrist muscles when writing- almost as if your wrist and hand were in a cast. This is a super hint I received from an established calligrapher.

The fact that schools now don't teach cursive writing baffles me....all the kids who can't sign their name. They can print it, but they have no ability to sign their name, which causes legal problems with official documents.

Let alone being able to read cursive writing.

Yup, social engineer the classroom, the "everyone wins", "everyone get's a window seat", mentality, while they fail at one of the most important fundamentals, simple writing.

I am a lefty, who, if left.to his own devices will print in a combination of block capital and lower case as the whim takes me.
I have to hand write some stuff for work, but if I don't concentrate it.is basically illegible after a couple of.days (when I can't.even remember the gist of what I meant). So now I try really hard to print carefully in Lower case.

Being a professional tattoo artist I've learned fonts in everything from script to circus type lettering. Pen it on the skin and ink it. Thus my handwriting has been polished but in the occasional instance where I might put pen to paper for something other than a tattoo, I'm barely legible.

Originally Posted by Phrank

The fact that schools now don't teach cursive writing baffles me....all the kids who can't sign their name. They can print it, but they have no ability to sign their name, which causes legal problems with official documents.

Let alone being able to read cursive writing.

Yup, social engineer the classroom, the "everyone wins", "everyone get's a window seat", mentality, while they fail at one of the most important fundamentals, simple writing.

Victorian cursive is actually quite hard to learn effectively for children with problems such as dyslexia. I can say this as my daughter is dyslexic amongst other things.