I Think I Might Just Switch To Printing

[oneill]

YES

 

In college, taking notes FAST completely destroyed my script handwriting.

So when I took exams, I PRINTED.

 

It wasn't until decades later, about 5 years ago that I hit the breaking point. One day, I decided that my script was disgusting.

That was when I started the process of relearning how to write script/cursive all over again.

 

Today I have what to me is a relatively nice hand, but ONLY if I take my time to write.

If I speed up, it gets messier and messier. For me speed kills.

 

Now that I've got my script/cursive cleaned up, I plan to learn other hands, like italic and uncial and ...

 

Writing in print/italic is just fine. At the very least, people will be able to read it. With cursive, you may run into people that cannot read script/cursive.

Can I tell you about something which teaches anyone good handwriting,its the paper, if you use what we used to

use in England in the middle ages {1945} we used what was called an Excercise Book in the English lesson it had

the pages lined with three lines which kept ones letters under control as follows, Letters, if your middle line

is like the Letters is then you cant fail,Trust Me, oneill

[ReadyFireAim]

I consistently have touble legibly connecting double "s" and double "r", and I've got a few other problems that I just can't seem to get over.

 

[MG66]

I have a big problem making letters the same way twice. Seriously. Even when I go as slow as I can, my writing becomes (more) legible but I still don't have equidistant spacing or replication of letters. Printing is better, but still some of the same issues there.

 

I recently started a contract with a new client (I'm a consultant) and I've taken a lot of notes by hand, and had to take them fast. My writing is still probably better than it used to be, but it is still mediocre at best. My wife says it looks like a six-year old learning to write (Irish New Yorkers are so subtle) and she's probably right. I really don't think I ever learned to write, at least write well. And honestly, while practice improves performance, I know that practicing something incorrectly just makes you better at performing the task incorrectly.

 

This is tough!

[virgilio]

Cursive script arose during the late Roman Empire in order to prevent falsification of public documents, since each scribe would have his own individual tics in this regard. For books what we call printing was preferred, since it is quicker and much more legible. But cursivd may also have arisen to avoid ever lifting the reed pen from the paper, so avoiding ink flow problems. See below.

 

I do not deny however that modern cursive can be beautiful in its own way, but it is not for a professional writer. I write about 3 hours a day, and cursive is not rapid or legible enough. I use what I call quick printing, where I use the capitals but eliminate unnecessary strokes. For example, I eliminate the crossbar of the A, so that it looks like a Greek lambda, the downstroke of the B, so that it looks like a 3, and so on. The result is about twice as fast as ordinary printing, and remains nery neat and legible. Nor do I follow the traditional stroke order necessarily, but instead whatever is quicker. For instance I make the A by an upstroke and a downstroke, not two downstrokes. Modern fountain pens, unlike ancient reed pens, do not require that one follow a certain stroke order in order to get the ink flowing.