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Penmanship

  • 06-10-2008 11:00am
    #1
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭


    I wasn't sure if this was the right forum but I can't see anywhere else to put it.

    When I was in school my penmanship although not awful it wasn't the neatest and "in this day an age" of technology texting and email and what not I don't use it very much but I do want to start writing more with a pen and paper.

    Do any of you know any exercises one can do to improve it or know if there is classes I could attend not to learn to write but that concentrates specifically on the quality of penmanship?

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    Matt Holck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    Have you looked into calligraphy courses?







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    http://www.whats-your-sign.com/Celtic-Triple-Mother-Large.html


  • #3
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    It's interesting the amount of writers who are addicted to the scratch of the pen on the parchment.
    I'm with Kerouac though. My drug is the beat beat pattern of furious typing which seems to put me in a trance.


  • #4
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    What's great is the way you (well I) type to the tempo of the particular music that's on, and often it informs the mood of the piece. Never got that while writing with a pen tbh.


  • #5
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I used to way back in the day. Always had a wee notebook on me and a pen to scribble with. I was so put off by my scrawl that I moved to typing. Then as your typing skills increase, it becomes easier to make the typing a part of the process rather than a medium.
    I still love the look of a dirty manuscript though, 10 years old, rife with blotches, corners frayed and torn. Looks more real.


  • #6
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I use both, pencil in the daytime for rough ideas, keyboard at night to beat them into shape. I also prefer drawing lines through discarded text than hitting the delete key. Cathartic, maybe.


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  • #7
    Matt Holck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,706 ✭✭✭Matt Holck


    preserves the discarded


  • #8
    Phototoxin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭Phototoxin


    Paper

    pluses = feels good, you have a hard copy all the time, doesn't crash, portable

    negatives = writers cramp, can get mixed up, can be hard to read, needs to be typed up

    Computer

    pluses = faster, doesnt take up as much space, portable (laptop), spellchecker

    negatives = not portable, RSI/eyestrain/possibly uncomfortable, some find it hard to read from a screen, non-portable (desktop)


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