Poll: How do you Write?

[JohnTomorrow]

Unfortunately, Cursive is becoming a lost skill. With typing becoming the norm for almost all messages, handwriting as a skill is beginning to plummet as a result. Unless it is a short message, people simply dont use a pen anymore.

My handwriting looks like an amalgam of cursive and printing, and as a result, is quite messy. I have built my typing skill fast and by myself when i was a child, simply because it was easier. There used to be a time when i would write short stories long-hand with pencil, so i could rub out any mistakes i'd make. It was laborious, painful, and simply not efficient. Now, i only write story and chapter notes in small notebooks i carry everywhere, only because i do not have a smart phone or access to my netbook when at work.

My notes are messy, full of spelling and grammar errors, and only understandable by me. Barely. Sometimes i will get a whole page of notes written in then have to close the notebook quickly- resulting in the penwork smudging against the other page and potentially ruining two pages worth of ideas. I have since had to buy better pens that dry quicker, and adjust my hand writing so i dont press down so hard when i write short-hand.

 

[zHellas]

It's... kind of cursive. Ranges anywhere from very good to barely legible.

This.

Mine's like a mix of Print and Cursive as there are lots of lines but I only print.

 

[Will of One]

I just throw down a bunch of lines and if I'm lucky it'll end up as a letter.

 

[Adventurer2626]

Computer because my non-cursive is atrocious. It's calligraphic script only I am capable of deciphering. Oddly enough, when I do write in cursive, it's near perfect. My signature is actually legible not just a string of loops. Must be the speed that I write in. I scribble "print" really fast (usually for note-taking/leaving purposes) and take my time on cursive.

 

[Gilhelmi]

Sadly, my hands do not write well so it is difficult to read even my printed writing. I type many thing out these days. Even so I have piles of notes that I leave myself reminding me to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, ect. Sadly that is not a joke my memory is quite poor at time and I have forgotten much I wish I could remember.

 

[Amberella]

Mine is weird. xD I sometimes can write really nice but others, not.

I also tend to start writing it then half my letters are in cursive somehow. xD

 

[2fish]

I dislike cursive and my hand writting is bad, so I print. I can read and write in cursive but it always felt annoying to me. Kinda like shiney hubcaps on a normal car, whats the point of making the letters purty when it is the words that matter?.

 

[gl1koz3]

I get a really weird feeling when writing by hand. An urge to throw the pen to some place.

Yeah, school was a pain.

 

[wolf92]

I used to use cursive, but it made all my teachers cry. Now I don't and my handwriting brings joy to their lives. Or I use a computer

 

[Hollock]

I pretend I'm a writer and then I write.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I hated it when my Romanian teacher would criticize me for my writing. I mean sure, it did look like a dog just crapped on my notebook but writing is based on your personality. I'm a lazy, impatient bum and I don't have the patience to make art every time I write a sentence. If teachers really want to change a students writing style then they should call a cognitive therapist.

 

[theSovietConnection]

I use non-cursive myself, though I'd love to get a typewriter.

 

[No_Remainders]

If only I had my English notepad home today...

Basically, it's all over the place. It ranges from perfect block letters to squiggly joined writing to a slanted mess that I'm barely able to read myself.

And that's just across a single paragraph.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

If I don't have a computer handy, I just print.

 

[Unrulyhandbag]

An almost pressed flat to the right cursive that looks like it's accelerating across the page. I write bloody fast.

Just before I left the army we had a kit inspection that included notepad and pen. I handed out my three spares to some of the newer lads that had apparently never owned a pen. "why do you have pens on you all time? I've never written anything outside of school"


I was quite literally stunned.

 

[tahrey]

i'd scribble something like archemetis, as i've got a tablet pc, but the pen's broken

I type, electronically, most of the time, but I still do a fair bit of what we over here call "joined up writing" (we never really got the whole "cursive" thing. that or we ditched it decades ago for being just TOO old fashioned)

The overall neatness varies with speed...

I can also write in Palm Graffiti, though I never did finish learning how to write kana.

 

[thylasos]

Small, copperplate-esque, rather feminine-looking cursive. Neater in cyrillic than Latin script.

 

[Dyme]

Even more beautiful in reality!

And I actually forgot a '

 

[Blind Sight]

I write on my laptop, but I have this awesome feature that can make my keyboard sound like a typewriter. I usually use it to drive people who are talking too much in the library mad.

 

[Death God]

Well, my cursive sucks and I don't usually type but I usually write in print so non-cursive.