today on greg writes stuff down we’re reading some mary oliver and thinking about joy in a scary world
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So I’ve been getting into writing more like proper journaling and wanting to improve my writing skills to also help with my Japanese writing skills and I’m now down a rabbit hole of questions. Who knows the best/most comfortable pen holding position bc the normal way I do messes with my pen. Like the ink just goes away then back in the same stroke
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today on greg writes stuff down, world’s shittiest dad victor frankenstein says some no-no words and becomes a weeb.
pen: platinum honest 66
ink: idk, the cartridge it came with
paper: kokuyo perpanep sara sara in 3mm grid
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🖊️✒️National Handwriting Day!🖊️✒️
National Handwriting Day celebrates putting pen or pencil to paper. As quick as it is to type on a keyboard or touch a screen, actually using a writing implement in your hand has many advantages. Studies show something written is remembered and understood more and many writers attest to writing a first draft as it allows a better flow of thoughts, instead of editing as you write.
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My handwriting is very expressive. Looking between my rough drafts and finalized drafts, my penmanship has multiple expressions.
I seem to have a funny habit of seldomly dotting my i’s properly, they’re mostly always to the right or on top/melded in with the next letter of a word, or absent altogether. Sometimes I smash my I’s in with either letter around it, hidden. But it’s there. Some letters love to hug others very snuggly. Like my R’s and S’s.
My T’s too, they tend to hide alongside my H’s. The letters are there, in true spirit, however only I know that when I’m looking at my writing haha. Others see poor English, unless they catch a subtle dash/cross through.
My brain wishes to throw words on paper and not bother with the trivial. Running fast into the next letter! I also write my rough drafts in dual code. My brain is split between standard and cursive when writing. I have to painstakingly rewrite multiple times for my split brain to not show on paper. My hand has the need for speed and can’t write my thoughts out fast enough.
Reminds me of all written works I’ve done in my lifetime. For one whole paragraph, 3-6 sentences…written over and over perhaps ten times or more, sitting in a landfill somewhere.
Aside from all that, I really love my G’s. Especially their long swooping tails that drop below the line in big loops. Looks kind of curly. Curly anchors!
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doom spiral into worse penmanship but it’s practice. penmanship practice. this is consonant with my establishment of a daily habit of writing better and better (i.e. more legibly) on the whiteboard at work because it is writing on a whiteboard at work which is practice at writing on a non-absorbent surface using an erasable apparatus
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We should keep alive the art of penmanship
Handwritten letters are part of us and remind us that all is not lost yet, simply by pressing a pen onto a piece of paper and forming letters that are uniquely ours. The handwritten letters, wavy lines, spaces between words, are part of us.
It reveals even the gender of the writer. Times New Roman, 12 will never do that.
Do not allow your children to lose this artistic skill that will keep them in good stead in later years, and take it up on yourself to teach them if the school they attend does not.
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