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Sukh

Sukh

Sukh

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This is going to sound odd on a computer forum, but I want to improve my handwriting and buy a nice fountain pen.

I'm not particularly talking about calligraphy, just everyday handwriting, that doesn't look like a 10 year old wrote it. Anyone into writing or anything and can give some advice?
 
Get an actual 10 year old to write it. All the ten year olds I know* have better handwriting than me, probably because they spend all day at school being taught how to write neatly rather than do calculus.

*All two of them.
 
A fancy pen won't suddenly make you write better.
I spend a lot of time trying to work out what Health Professionals have wrote in Medical Records and most Doctors/Consultants have fancy pens.
You need to get back to basics.
 
I've addressed my handwriting before. Basically I picked a style I liked and copied it and it helps if you can see the person writing so you can mimic their writing style. It takes a lot of practice and you have have to take your time. It can mean holding the pen differently, using a different amount of pressure, changing the way you draw letters and whether you join them up or not.

But after a while it becomes natural and you'll find you don't go back to your old writing style.
 
I'd like to get better handwriting as mine is pretty shocking to the point I generally write in small caps for everything. Saying that, most of the engineers I know do something similar to this too, so it might just come with the territory!
 
Ovr said:
I'd like to get better handwriting as mine is pretty shocking to the point I generally write in small caps for everything. Saying that, most of the engineers I know do something similar to this too, so it might just come with the territory!
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+1 i tend to write exclusively in small caps too, and only in pencil at work.
 
My writing is beyond appauling until I pick up an old Parker rollerball thing I found in the road once. I have a really nice Parker fountain pen too, but write better with a 20p biro for the most part.
 
I'm also an all caps writer. It's ridiculously unergonomic to write that way. Saying that though I rarely write now except to sign for deliveries and things. Almost all of my written work is typed out on computer.
 
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Jonny69 said:
I've addressed my handwriting before. Basically I picked a style I liked and copied it and it helps if you can see the person writing so you can mimic their writing style. It takes a lot of practice and you have have to take your time. It can mean holding the pen differently, using a different amount of pressure, changing the way you draw letters and whether you join them up or not.

But after a while it becomes natural and you'll find you don't go back to your old writing style.
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I did the same thing.:) just keep practising
 
I'd love to improve my handwriting but in reality I just don't need to so it'll never happen. I know that I grip the life out of the pen/pencil I'm writing with which then leads to hand cramps which doesn't help. That old trick of rubbing a pencil over the next page to read what was written on the first work on about page 10 for me!
 
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