How do you write? [Archive] - Literature Network Forums

Bii

08-01-2007, 04:13 PM

Do you always write the same? My handwriting can be completely different one minute to the next, although someone I can still always tell that it's mine (as can the people that work with me!). Occasionally people can read it, but often not. In the days when I used to make dinner, I would write down what we were going to have for dinner that evening on the chalkboard in our kitchen. One day I wrote 'hot blackened chicken', and got an immediate demand from my husband to be told what on earth 'let blockened chicken' was. It is still known as let blockened chicken to this day (and it's very nice too).

Lily Adams

08-01-2007, 04:27 PM

Cursive:http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/notlilyadams.jpg
Print:http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa144/shesoutofsync/mutations.jpg

I don't use one writing style more than the other, so I thought it would only be fair if I posted both.

Great thread! :) Your writing is pretty, Niamh.

Niamh

08-01-2007, 05:10 PM

i wite the same all the time. only time it looks different is if i'm rushing something. If i take my time its much neater than whats above but its still got the same flow.

LiLy i like your scripts. they have a nice flow to them.

kilted exile

08-01-2007, 05:30 PM

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h155/celticb33r/DSC00286.jpg

Lily Adams

08-01-2007, 07:53 PM

LiLy i like your scripts. they have a nice flow to them.

Thank you. :)

But I can read your writing quite easily, Kilted! :D

Do you always write the same?

I seem to change my handwriting completely every few months, but I think I'm going to keep this set. :D I've actually kept my cursive handwriting for overa year now. It's English Roundhand. I didn't make up any of my handwriting. :( *feels bad*

Poetess

08-01-2007, 08:18 PM

I have this thing in me, i`m always INTERESTED in seeing how people write!
My handwriting isn`t always the same. I have like 3 different "fonts" -if I can say- that I usually use..
My typical handwriting is hard to read.. But i`ll try as soon as I can to post any..

kilted exile

08-01-2007, 08:22 PM

But I can read your writing quite easily, Kilted! :D

My kind of handwriting/scrawling led to my biology teacher when I was 16 referring to me as "retarded" ah, school, happy days.....

Lily Adams

08-02-2007, 02:14 AM

My kind of handwriting/scrawling led to my biology teacher when I was 16 referring to me as "retarded" ah, school, happy days.....

I hear ya. I mean, not on the handwriting, which I really can't see it as being "retarted" and thus making you "retarted"...

Niamh

08-02-2007, 05:57 AM

My kind of handwriting/scrawling led to my biology teacher when I was 16 referring to me as "retarded" ah, school, happy days.....

Daft! I can read that quite well. But i use to be criticised for my writing in school also. but yet some people in schools writing was so illegible. for example
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q268/niamhking/Picture003.jpg

dramasnot6

08-02-2007, 09:46 AM

Annamariah

08-02-2007, 01:33 PM

I like this thread :) I'm writing my own letter to you all, but it'll take some time before I can get it to my computer and post it here.

BibliophileTRJ

08-02-2007, 02:07 PM

How do I write...... ?

BADLY. Having never made it past the 8th grade, and working on boats for very nearly the rest of my life since then..... I don't write much of anything by hand. When I do, its printing - all caps all the time..... my cursive handwriting is absolutely illegible ..... even to me (thats IF I remember how to do it at all.....haven't tried in ages).

Niamh

08-02-2007, 02:33 PM

BibliophileTRJ

08-02-2007, 02:49 PM

Hey Biblio!:wave: How are you keeping? hope everything is well. I'm sure you write well. You fancy showing us your scrawl?:D

Hi there Niamh. :wave:
Not much is well... Last week I walked in on my partner "in the act" of cheating on me with another man.... Kicked him out. Broke my heart.

My dad died a couple of weeks before that.... left me his business (same as mine) ONLY IF & WHEN I get married in the Catholic church knowing full well that will NEVER happen. So I had to sign away my claim to a few million dollars worth of boats, equipment and licenses.

Found out yesterday that I need not 1, not 2; but 3 (count 'em THREE) root canals.

(someone just shoot me and put me out of my misery)

Anyway, I don't want to hijack this thread too much...... (too late) .... so I'll just tell you that while I would love to show you my scrawl, the cheating b/f took the digital camera with him (even though he gave it to me as a gift on our last anniversary) so I have no way to get my chicken-scratch from paper to computer.

Lily Adams

08-02-2007, 03:00 PM

So pretty!

Aw, thank you. *blush*

People, show us your handwriting! :D :D

Annamariah

08-24-2007, 05:07 PM

I promised to post here, so now I do, though it's already been some time :D
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/kaislaneito/Taide/198_9844.jpg

Tabula_Rasa

08-24-2007, 05:19 PM

This is how I write at present.

http://images.orkut.com/orkut/albums/ATgAAADt8TUHZcT7Y6xzEnASSNcVAZPOVNZcKN_HI9Qu9nUd2I 0XB8bYMIhunEDp2TD2q1j9wTZKUw9HTNxhyoEPa0AaAJtU9VAe lE-LkM9EdH4EQrk7HlRJaabQGA.jpg

Niamh

08-24-2007, 06:37 PM

Annamariah i can read you writing perfectly. I reminds me of mine, but your is neater!:D

Tabula yours is not showing.

Annamariah

08-25-2007, 07:17 AM

Annamariah i can read you writing perfectly. I reminds me of mine, but your is neater!:D

Tabula yours is not showing.

Cool! Somehow all the teachers survived through my school years, but I DID hear them saying more than once "Don't you think you should give me a magnifying glass with your paper?" :blush: That picture makes my handwriting a bit bigger than it really is, though.

I only realised after posting the picture, that I'd signed it in the Finnish way :D

I can see Tabula's picture...

Niamh

08-25-2007, 07:20 AM

i can see it now Tabula. Very nice.

Like you my hand writing use to be tiny. But when i was in primary school my teachers kind of made me write bigger, so i went from small and neat to not so small and sloppy.:p

Saphira

08-25-2007, 02:14 PM

Hello,
I mostly write on the computer. I write a lot.

/Saphira

Mrs. Dalloway

08-25-2007, 06:09 PM

I promised to post here, so now I do, though it's already been some time :D
http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/kaislaneito/Taide/198_9844.jpg

Your handwriting is very similar to the handwriting of a friend :)

Mrs. Dalloway

08-25-2007, 06:19 PM

Here is my handwriting :) The drawing is a bit scary :lol:
I'm lefthanded :)

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1045/image11qf4gy7.jpg

Bakiryu

08-25-2007, 09:37 PM

I can so understand Mrs. Dalloway. My handwriting is so bad doctors CAN'T READ IT!!!!

My left hand is bad and my right hand is worse. I write better when writing back to front: like this: !!!NIJ is eman ym. but i'm not dyslexic

Here goes nothing! (and a thousand curses to my crappy handwriting!)

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa137/Bakiryu7/handwritting.jpg

I'll give you 10 bucks if you can read it!

Mrs. Dalloway

08-26-2007, 04:58 AM

I understand your writing! hehe but the end of the lines are a bit strange! why is it different from the top of the page?

I love writing from back to front :lol: :lol: It's very funny!

Niamh

08-26-2007, 05:33 AM

Nice writing Albhe;) But the image is huge and you have to scroll. Did you use the host site photobucket because if you did you csn reduce the size to fit.:)
Baki, As random as your random Blog!:p :D :thumbs_up

Mrs. Dalloway

08-26-2007, 05:44 AM

Nice writing Albhe;) But the image is huge and you have to scroll. Did you use the host site photobucket because if you did you csn reduce the size to fit.:)

that's it! :D

Nice writing Albhe;)

Is it Albhe or Ailbhe? Or are they the same?

Niamh

08-26-2007, 05:54 AM

seems you got it!

both :)

Bakiryu

08-26-2007, 09:09 PM

Baki, As random as your random Blog!:p :D :thumbs_up

It sure is! :D

I understand your writing! hehe but the end of the lines are a bit strange! why is it different from the top of the page?

I have no idea, I write too fast and the letters come out all weird. That on top was me writing slowly and the beginning and then faster and faster. It's great if I want to be a typist my WAM usually is over 80!!!

blazeofglory

09-22-2007, 09:10 PM

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q268/niamhking/Picture.jpg
So what you think? do you dare to show how you write? leave a message or just sign your name!:D

I write on computer, not in copies these days. It is so easy. When I write on computer I can use dictionaries, and it detects spelling mistakes and the like. There are many facilities.

I often change styles. At times I like writing using bigger words, and at times simple ones.

Petrarch's Love

09-23-2007, 11:21 AM

Niamh

09-23-2007, 11:26 AM

I agree with your friends. Doctor writing! Took me a while to figure out some of that! I'm still trying to figure out other parts!:p

Lote-Tree

09-23-2007, 11:29 AM

I don't write anymore. I can't remember when was the last time I actually written anything except to sign documents and fill forms in.

Hand writing for me has become obsolete - which is a good thing because my hand writing is so terrible :D

Bakiryu

09-23-2007, 11:49 AM

Neat idea for a thread, Niamh. I'm fascinated by the way different people write. Just to make everyone feel great about their own penmanship, I'll post a sample of my own highly illegible script. I've also included a little sample of mirror writing for the fun of it.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e386/LeonardoD/handwriting.jpg

I can read that. My handwriting is so unreadable I even showed it to a few doctors (while I was on the hospital) and they couldn't read it ! :sick:

Lote-Tree

09-23-2007, 11:57 AM

My handwriting is so unreadable I even showed it to a few doctors (while I was on the hospital) and they couldn't read it ! :sick:

That could be a really good joke :D

But I guess it's your writing so it won't be funny to you :D

But seriously does anyone write these days?

Really as in using quill pen etc...and a4 size paper...:D

May be it's just me being a computer programmer that I don't need to write anything with my hands. But I guess for a lot of people hand writing is becoming obsolete...

Bakiryu

09-23-2007, 12:07 PM

But seriously does anyone write these days?

May be it's just me being a computer programmer that I don't need to write anything with my hands. But I guess for a lot of people hand writing is becoming obsolete...

Maybe that's just you :alien:

I write everyday, everywhere. I have a bunch of notebooks filled with unreadable poetry and my room is filled with paper. It's a fire hazard :lol:

I own a quill too, as in a feather and ink. It looks really cool :D

Lote-Tree

09-23-2007, 12:09 PM

Maybe that's just you :alien:

I write everyday, everywhere. I have a bunch of notebooks filled with unreadable poetry and my room is filled with paper. It's a fire hazard :lol:

I own a quill too, as in a feather and ink. It looks really cool :D

But you spend so much time in front of the computer screens. And definiately you were not using a quill pen :D

Bakiryu

09-23-2007, 12:10 PM

But you spend so much time in front of the computer screens. And definiately you were not using a quill pen :D

I'm an insomniac, I haven't gone to sleep since I woke up yesterday about 4 pm. And there's also school.

I know a bunch of people who can't write though, I wonder what the heck are they doing in high school?!

Lote-Tree

09-23-2007, 12:13 PM

I'm an insomniac. And there's also school.

Baki I am only joking with you :D

But I work with people who never write anything with their hands these days...the last time they wrote anything was at Uni...

Perhaps we need to open a poll to see how many people still write with their hands? :D

Bakiryu

09-23-2007, 12:15 PM

they could write with their feet!

Lily Adams

09-26-2007, 12:31 AM

Now that people have to actually, ya know, LOOK at my writing now that I've gone back to school, I've recently been told by a lotta people that my printing is "gangsta", particularly the y's and the g's.

I'm jiggy with the hippity hop, fool.

Schokokeks

10-01-2007, 03:07 PM

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x316/shewhomustnotbenamed_photos/DSC02279.jpg

Oops, it's a bit hard to see in the down right corner, but I hope it's legible ;).

Niamh

10-01-2007, 05:59 PM

nice writing cookie! good to see you around! I got stumped on one word but i eventually figured it out:p

syiah

10-01-2007, 06:55 PM

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i223/syiah/Random149.jpg

I'm so envious of what I see from others.. :O
I wonder if mine will be decipherable at all. :D

Niamh

10-02-2007, 11:28 AM

hope your math teacher saw the funny side of the present!:p

RoCKiTcZa

01-06-2008, 05:18 AM

Without beating around the bush: Show us how you really write!!! :D Yep, your famous handwriting you sign all those autographs with ;)

Here's mine. My everyday printing:
http://photos.friendster.com/photos/03/28/5958230/1_997602196l.jpg

Koa

01-06-2008, 08:43 AM

Wow that's so incredibly neat! :eek:

I'll provide a sample when I stop being lazy :D

Weisinheimer

01-06-2008, 05:36 PM

Here's mine:

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee303/weisinheimer/crwriting011.jpg

stephofthenight

01-06-2008, 06:53 PM

my handwriting is horrible...i shall spare you of trying to read it.

AtomicCafe1

01-08-2008, 08:32 PM

Jane Jane

01-08-2008, 09:56 PM

I so wish for you every good thing.

I study calligraphy actually, just half way through so I can't remember exactly what my real writing is like.

crazefest456

01-08-2008, 10:34 PM

I heard writing slanted or tilted means you are possibly depressed. I think I heard it from some crappy television show analyzing a serial killer's letters.

Sorry.

I see some people have the problem with writing too small- anyone have a problem with writing too light?

I write slanted...I'm pretty sure I'm not depressed; maybe a tad bit insane...:D

I have problem with writing too big and dark. And my obsession with pens adds to the messy handwriting..

RoCKiTcZa

01-08-2008, 11:53 PM

I heard writing slanted or tilted means you are possibly depressed. I think I heard it from some crappy television show analyzing a serial killer's letters.

Sorry.

I see some people have the problem with writing too small- anyone have a problem with writing too light?

I don't think so. According to what I've read on handwriting analysis, letters slanted to the left mean you're a little bit shy and withdrawn, while letters slanted to the right indicate optimism and a good leadership potential.

Niamh

01-09-2008, 06:19 AM

slanting to the left shy, to the right vain.

B-Mental

01-09-2008, 06:23 AM

Well, just so you folks know, the rules get thrown out when you are talking about left handed people. Their writing style is uniquely different from righties.

Niamh

01-09-2008, 06:38 AM

yeah, ours is generally more smugged!:lol:

AtomicCafe1

01-09-2008, 09:35 AM

I don't think so. According to what I've read on handwriting analysis, letters slanted to the left mean you're a little bit shy and withdrawn, while letters slanted to the right indicate optimism and a good leadership potential.

Yeah, as I said before I heard it on some crappy tv show, so I wasn't relying on the information. Very interesting though. So does writing straight and upright with no slant at all fit between the two?

Oh, and does anyone actually still write with typical, normal pencils anymore, the ones you have to sharpen? With the advent of the mechanical pencil it seems like I rarely see people do so. Sharpening pencils suck.

kilted exile

01-09-2008, 10:22 AM

When I was learning to write the teacher told us that writing should incline to the right, the textbooks for practising letters were even set up so they had to incline to be "correct". We were also told a capital letter should be the full height of the line & a lower case letter 1/2 line height. I doubt the handwriting analysis experts have taken teaching into account, probably leading to serious errors.

Niamh

01-09-2008, 05:19 PM

yes people still use regular pencils. I hate those mechanical ones.

Shea

01-09-2008, 05:25 PM

I haven't bothered to look through this entire thread, but one thing that floored me as a new teacher was that cursive wasn't taught anymore! All my kids knew how to do was to sign their name. I'm talking 15, 16, and 17 year olds. I had to retrain myself to print, because they couldn't read my handwriting, which really isn't that bad. I'd show you, but our scanner isn't hooked up at the moment...

Niamh

01-09-2008, 06:30 PM

What! they were teaching me cursive/joint writing in school when i was seven. There is a much better flow to it than print.

RoCKiTcZa

01-09-2008, 09:02 PM

yes people still use regular pencils. I hate those mechanical ones.

I believe they're more convenient to use in drafting, though. :)

grace86

01-09-2008, 09:39 PM

I still handwrite - a lot, but then I am a university student.

I am left handed so I smudge my writing all the time. That is especially true when it comes to pencils and eraseable ink, or most pens in general. I think because of that, when I am writing slowly, my letters are usually upright and not very slanted.

Other times, like when taking notes, my letters slant to the right, to the left, and stay straight. All depends on the desk I am using to write on (stupid small right handed desks!!!). But somehow us lefties figure it out. :p I once made a friend by the fact that I noticed that she was left handed (she was all over the place with her notebook on one of those desks).

Unfortunately I do not like mechanical pencils. I think I smudge my writing more with those.

Later this evening I will post my writing. Lately, since I started university, I write cursive style...both in my notes and personal writing. But when I am taking notes in class my cursive looks horrible. So I will post an example of both the neat and the messy. Hehe but I also write kind of big, when some people have almost two pages of notes, I will have like three.

RoCKiTcZa

01-09-2008, 11:35 PM

Yeah, as I said before I heard it on some crappy tv show, so I wasn't relying on the information. Very interesting though. So does writing straight and upright with no slant at all fit between the two?

Oh, and does anyone actually still write with typical, normal pencils anymore, the ones you have to sharpen? With the advent of the mechanical pencil it seems like I rarely see people do so. Sharpening pencils suck.

Hey there AtomicCafe. ;) According to the book, upright handwriting (writing w/o slant) shows independence. My penmanship would probably fall under that category, and the definition somehow applies to myself. I really don't depend on others much when it comes to my personal needs, though I make friends a lot. I love meeting new people (as indicated by my italicized letters which slant to the right).

crazefest456

01-10-2008, 01:34 AM

Oh, and does anyone actually still write with typical, normal pencils anymore, the ones you have to sharpen? With the advent of the mechanical pencil it seems like I rarely see people do so. Sharpening pencils suck.

*raises hand slowly* I do. Since I love pens so much (not ballpoint; ink), I don't bother to buy mechanical pencils. I prefer the sharpening kinds because I have more control (of the lead) when I'm doodling...Also, the old kinds work REALLY well with the erasers I get from Pakistan, that are extremely soft and cleans out any smudges perfectly. And they both smell really good :D

AtomicCafe1

01-10-2008, 09:35 AM

Oh, and does anyone actually still write with typical, normal pencils anymore, the ones you have to sharpen? With the advent of the mechanical pencil it seems like I rarely see people do so. Sharpening pencils suck.

Ok guys, I guess I was wrong in my assumption. But wouldn't you think in a world where you can get an i-pod,phone,internet and all sorts of other stuff in one device, eventually the hassle of having to sharpen pencils would, well, you know? I definitely like the feel of normal ones better, but it is just so nice and convenient to have an unlimitedly(it seems like. I always lose em before I run out of lead) sharp pencil to accompany you in you various writing experiences. Now, if someone found out a way for regular pencils to be constantly sharp, I'd be all over them!

Weisinheimer

01-10-2008, 12:24 PM

And they both smell really good :D

:lol: that's important:p

Shea

01-10-2008, 07:09 PM

What! they were teaching me cursive/joint writing in school when i was seven. There is a much better flow to it than print.

Yeah, I find that I write faster and more legibly when I write in cursive and it just simply looks better. It seemed like every little detail was working against me as a teacher.:brickwall

RoCKiTcZa

01-11-2008, 04:38 AM

Yeah, I find that I write faster and more legibly when I write in cursive and it just simply looks better. It seemed like every little detail was working against me as a teacher.:brickwall

Generally, however, students find printing more legible than cursive because their eyes have been trained to look at printed letters. I don't mean to say that your handwriting is not good. I myself am a high school student too (and I have experienced teaching as well for there are programs that call for proctors and student teachers and I often sign up), and I have noticed that one of the major reasons why my classmates hated our Fil. teacher so much was because she gave us questionnaires and handouts written in script and all those loops often confused them. I'm pretty used to cursive though.