Writing By Hand

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Do YOU prefer to write by hand?

Deborah Lee Luskin's avatarLive to Write - Write to Live

writing by handWhen I don’t know what I want to say, when I’m stuck in an essay or a scene or a business letter, or even when I’ve just been away on vacation and need to settle back at my desk, I always rediscover my voice by writing by hand.

Handwriting is like a fingerprint, unique to each individual; my handwriting’s lousy.

My handwriting has deteriorated in direct proportion to my keyboarding skills, which are fierce – and fast. Writing by hand slows me down, which is a good way to find my way to the page.

Writing by hand grounds me. It keeps my eyes focused on my words and my mind trained on my ideas, holding them long enough to scrawl them in ink on narrow-lined paper. The problem is that the scrawl is sometimes quite hard to decipher – even for me, even within minutes of scribbling them down.

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  2. i used to write everything long hand. But then two things happened: 1) my handwriting degenerated to the point where even I couldn’t decipher it after a while and 2) typing on a computer could keep up with my thoughts, whereas writing longhand couldn’t.

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  3. I started writing by hand, but it was a mess. When my husband saw the mess, he introduced me straight away to a computer. I still have sometimes a mess there as well, but I can manage it now. When in holiday, as it was just now, I write things down to remember my idea I had on the way. then I have to remember where I have written it down. 😀

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