Handwriting Horror

[Mister5]

FWIW, my handwriting is truly horrible. This works against me as I write out my novels and then dictate it into Dragon ... but sometimes I don't know what the heck I wrote. For example, a's look like w's. I have no idea how I got through law school without the profs flunking me out.

 

Anyhow, my handwriting magically improves when I switch to a stub or italic - when I went to a Nemosine Singularity 0.6 it was like night and day with my handwriting. Some of that might be that the italic (it's not smooth enough for me to think its a stub) just naturally looks better, but some of it is that that there's more feedback and I'm moving a touch slower - a very smooth nib isn't always the best thing. I'd like to try an Aurora since I heard they have more feedback, just to see if I get some improvement from that.

[vdiantonio]

Many highly intelligent people have horrible handwriting

There is an analogy there somewhere!

[Bo Bo Olson]

Well, hopefully you are holding the fountain pen behind the big index knuckle like a fountain pen and not before it like a ball point.

it's easy enough to stay in the ball point mode, or regress to it with out thought for some.

 

That was about the only point not covered. If and when I have to write two words with a ball point.....it's Nightmare on Elm Street cubed.

[Mangrove Jack]

We tend to gradually start using our fingers more than we should when we write. I find my handwriting improves dramatically when I consciously use a lighter fist and more of an arm stroke to form my letters and words. Less fingers / wrist movement, and more arm movement.

[corgicoupe]

FWIW, my handwriting is truly horrible. This works against me as I write out my novels and then dictate it into Dragon ... but sometimes I don't know what the heck I wrote. For example, a's look like w's. I have no idea how I got through law school without the profs flunking me out.

 

Anyhow, my handwriting magically improves when I switch to a stub or italic - when I went to a Nemosine Singularity 0.6 it was like night and day with my handwriting. Some of that might be that the italic (it's not smooth enough for me to think its a stub) just naturally looks better, but some of it is that that there's more feedback and I'm moving a touch slower - a very smooth nib isn't always the best thing. I'd like to try an Aurora since I heard they have more feedback, just to see if I get some improvement from that.

I attended a short seminar present by Susan Wirth at the recent Atlanta pen show. Her message was that an italic nib will improve your handwriting legibility.