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

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.

I’m going to do three of them.

One will be in my cursive handwriting, that I was taught in the 3rd grade and I used until the 12th grade. It is very illegible and I NEVER use it. All through school the teachers would see “me” (cute, petite, friendly, girl) and assume I was just rushing through and write “sloppy” and “sp.” in red ink all over my papers. I “HATED” it! My Dad, Uncle, Aunt and Son have the same penmanship.

The next will be printed, when I started working in the dental office,at the age of 19, the front office girls needed to be able to read my writing, and we wrote up the charts, not the Dr.s, so I started using simple, all capitols, block printing.
Even then a patient would see my writing and say,”Wow, your writing is as bad as the Dr.’s” We did use a lot of long medical terms, so I loved using the abbreviations. pt flg rc crn epi ext
after a while I started making up my own, the front office girls don’t like it when you do that, but then again, they don’t a whole lot of things ;)

Lastly, I will write using my felt tip calligraphy pen. I had always wanted to learn calligraphy, but I knew that with the ink , cartridges, and nibs I would just make a big ‘ol mess. Now I could just pick it up and go. I got some books from the library,
Kathy and McPunk got me in trouble one time, they were pushing all of the books back so they were not neat and lined up to the front of the shelf( I never brought either one of them again,Berta either lol)anyway, I found that if I wrote with the pen using my regular cursive, it actually look like a girl wrote it :) I used it to write out Christmas cards and I even addressed all of our wedding invitations :D I was very excited when they started making them in different colors for us scrapbookers, oh pretty :D

I hope this is legible.

Here is my handwriting in its current incarnation. I mostly write in small caps these days though the occasional break into traditional printing has been known to occur. I barely remember cursive anymore. I hope you cannot tell too much about a person from their handwriting as this is not much of a statement in my favor.

Most of my notebooks are this kind of graph paper. If I write without lines, my text wanders up and down the page with little rhyme or reason. Also, I like to draw graphs and work math problems so the graph paper can be useful. It even helps when I do Japanese puzzles like sudoku or kakuro. So, consider it a useful affectation and you won’t be too far off the mark.