Cursive calamity...

[Aperitif]

...or is your writing right on following the advent of computers, keyboards and quick laser printers?
Remember when computers were a novelty in the home - where Mavis Beacon came to fame in the living rooms of millions (Wonder what she's doing now )
Has this progress disturbed your enjoyment of writing or do you still find time to write with pen on paper - beyond the daily scribble for shopping or notation on a bit of paperwork?
I used to take a lot of care - it was a 'style' thing that everyone did where I worked once upon a time, and I suppose with a bit of effort it is not too bad but I have developed this scrawly unpleasant notation which is a bit poor.
Any calligraphers out there - or are we all doctor's prescriptionists?

 

[Dayvo]

The only writing I do is writing (high) numbers on my golf score card!

But I still have reasonably legible (and quite neat) handwriting!

 

[marinyork]

I write with a fountain pen which a former girlfriend's mother remarked upon when meeting me for the first time (surely you'd say something more superficial to say!). My writing is near, but I do only single storey As.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Fountain pen or pencil only for me. My writing style has declined as I rarely get to write long pieces by hand. My tryping's shoot however and I curse the compooter's dominance in the workplace and it's inherent qwertyness...

 

[Smokin Joe]

I spent a year in a drawing office during my engineering apprenticeship, and under the wing of the senior draughtsman who was a stickler for clarity and precision my handwriting reached a very high standard.

After years of keyboards however, it is now so bad I have trouble reading it myself. It often takes me two attempts to write a note as the first is so bad.

 

[Over The Hill]

On the plus side, I spent 25 years after I left school not putting pen to paper. I am crap at spelling so found the whole writing thing very frustrating. I left school at 15 having had all my confidence red-inked out of me.

Then I got a word processor with a spell checker and I could also change things around on the page as much as I wished. A new world opened up for me. Over time I changed my career went back to studying and am now a Property Lawyer.

I have had an idea for a novel in my head for a few years and have decided I would like to have a go at getting the thing down on paper. My evening class in creative writing starts next week. I would not even have written a note to the milkman a few years ago.

My daughter is dyslexic (I may be too but they called it “thick” back then) and I am trying to get her onto the computer to do her school work as soon as she is able.

So while I have nothing against a nostalgic romp back in time to the days of quills, I want to stand up for the word processor as in my humble opinion it is the best invention I can think of and I would even say it has been instrumental in changing my life.

(OTH reveals dark secret- a Lawyer! If it helps I am an out-of-work Lawyer at the moment)

 

[Maz]

Notes in my logbook at work are quite messy, as I write them in a rush and they're mainly for me, anyway.

I'm now doing a TEFL course and I've made a concerted effort to make sure my writing is legible!

 

[Aperitif]

You a lumberjack then Maz?

 

[tdr1nka]

My handwriting is block capitals in black ballpoint or a carpenter's pencil.

I did use to only use my Mum's old fountain pen, with black ink, but the bladder has perished and needs replacing.

My pen of choice at the moment is one of these.

 

[Dayvo]

My pen of choice at the moment is one of these.

That's an eye make-up pen!

Bt the way - the somersaulting astronaut would make a great avatar!

 

[mr Mag00]

whenever i write anything for people, they tend to comment on how neat my writing is!?!!

 

[Keith Oates]

My handwriting was never good and now, after many years of using computers, it has reduced to resemble a spiders web!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Kirstie]

I have kept a hand written research journal for 15 years and I am amazed when I look back and see how neat my handwriting once was - almost copperplate script, completely legible. Now it's a scrawl, but I can still decipher it, although others can't. Obviously this is a cunning plan so nobody steals my ideas...