write out a bit of Richardson's "Clarissa" so people can see my handwriting

As a resolution for next year, I want to improve my penmanship. Here’s my writing style as of today for this exercise:

I’d like my handwriting to be genuinely cursive. Somehow, over the years, it has evolved into a hybrid between cursive, some print, and some illegible.

As a side note, I’d like to thank Travelling Life for sharing this entry which is very inspirational for this goal and truly captures its essence. I hope she someday returns to 43T. For now, I’m glad she didn’t delete her profile and left us not only this entry but all her writing for us to enjoy and be inspired.

A couple of years back, this was one of the many goals I wanted to do here in 43T. I happened to stumble upon it today, and I decided to do it as a pre-goal for improving my penmanship.

The original entry with the proposal for the goal appears to be deleted —most likely along with the entire profile of the original poster. Anyway, I remember he/she mentioned that “Clarissa” is one of the longest novels of the English language, and also posted the text to reproduce in our own writing. Since it’s no longer available in that deleted entry, I dug in my Stickies, and, sure thing, there it was —after finding this, now I’m afraid I’ll find rats in there, too! lol

Here’s the text:

To Mr. JAMES HARLOWE.
Friday Morning.
SIR,
If, notwithstanding your prohibition, I should be silent, on occasion of your last, you would, perhaps, conclude, that I was consenting to go to my uncle Antony’s upon the condition you mention. My Father must do as he pleases with his child. He may turn me out of his doors, if he thinks fit, or give you leave to do it; but (loth as I am to say it) I should think it very hard to be carried by force to any-body’s house, when I have one of my own to go to.

Being English my second language, I had to read and reread the excerpt, plus write a couple drafts, and I’m still not sure I totally get what it says. The original printed version on Google Books is even harder to read, where the “s” looks more like an “f”. Here it is in case the link is not available:

If you’d also like to share your handwriting, join in!

and I’m just going to get this over with and RIP off the band-aid!
Just look at the Pretty Paper ok :)

but I did get to practice some writing and use my fountain pen.

When I read the text, I decided that she sounded annoyed and defensive, so I wrote quite quickly.

that this isn’t just another procrastination method.

:-)

Now, should I write fairly neatly, or should I write the way I do for my class notes?

I guess as it’s a letter, I should write it as if I were writing a letter to someone, that is – relatively neatly, but not painstakingly.

I have several styles, sometimes I’ll write bigger, taller, looser; here’s the smaller efficient version—as if I’m writing in my notepad that I carry around everywhere.

on 43T.
Baby steps.

This is my handwriting, only larger than usual …

I did go to this site for handwriting analysis, insults, and seduction by a 2-D pseudo-scientist. Surely that counts for something.