everyday handwriting

[swierski]

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9789/picture061l.jpg Edited March 20, 2009 by swierski

[vidalia11]

That's very pretty writing! It's a bit round which makes it look like a young person wrote it (I think that's how they teach cursive or something). You have some nice ornamentation on it, too. I bet the teachers are very happy to read your homework. What pen/paper are you using?

 

Karen

[swierski]

That's very pretty writing! It's a bit round which makes it look like a young person wrote it (I think that's how they teach cursive or something). You have some nice ornamentation on it, too. I bet the teachers are very happy to read your homework. What pen/paper are you using?

 

Karen

 

 

Thanks I use a Pilot V5 extra fine pen lol, and the paper is just graph paper. I just ordered a Waterman fine nib though =]. I also started practicing writing invitations to partys / weddings using Spencerian writing technique, with a lot of flourishings. I think I may post some of that later.

 

 

 

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3909/picture063r.jpg

Edited March 22, 2009 by swierski

[MicheleB]

I am VERY impressed! Much nicer than my handwriting. Keep it up! Am interested in seeing the Spencerian too.

Edited March 22, 2009 by MicheleB

[WendyNC]

Delightful! Fie on those who say young ones are no longer learning and using cursive script.

[rauduong]

Wow!

 

I'm in the twelfth grade, and I just started writing again in cursive a little while ago. It is nice that you have been writing since the sixth grade and it definitely shows.

 

I love your capital letters; could you show us some more samples of those?

[mcrouse]

I agree. You should post some of your other writing. The sample you posted is very easy to read. I imagine that your teachers think very highly of your penmanship.

 

Michael

[altecniblick]

Very nice.

[wykpenguin]

Very nice. I wish my everyday writing looked half as good.

 

Perhaps a bit more space between the lines would make it easier to read.

[McPete]

Well, that really puts me to shame. Bravo!

[KateGladstone]

I note that you wrote out the sample-text I request of adults entering the World Handwriting Contest, which I direct.

Do you plan to enter? If so, note that the Contest's judges look only at originals, not scans -- your scan, though, makes me eager to see you enter by sending your original!

 

 

That's very pretty writing! It's a bit round which makes it look like a young person wrote it (I think that's how they teach cursive or something). You have some nice ornamentation on it, too. I bet the teachers are very happy to read your homework. What pen/paper are you using?

 

Karen

 

 

Thanks I use a Pilot V5 extra fine pen lol, and the paper is just graph paper. I just ordered a Waterman fine nib though =]. I also started practicing writing invitations to partys / weddings using Spencerian writing technique, with a lot of flourishings. I think I may post some of that later.

 

 

 

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3909/picture063r.jpg

 

[swierski]

I note that you wrote out the sample-text I request of adults entering the World Handwriting Contest, which I direct.

Do you plan to enter? If so, note that the Contest's judges look only at originals, not scans -- your scan, though, makes me eager to see you enter by sending your original!

 

 

That's very pretty writing! It's a bit round which makes it look like a young person wrote it (I think that's how they teach cursive or something). You have some nice ornamentation on it, too. I bet the teachers are very happy to read your homework. What pen/paper are you using?

 

Karen

 

 

Thanks I use a Pilot V5 extra fine pen lol, and the paper is just graph paper. I just ordered a Waterman fine nib though =]. I also started practicing writing invitations to partys / weddings using Spencerian writing technique, with a lot of flourishings. I think I may post some of that later.

 

 

 

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3909/picture063r.jpg

 

 

Yup, I plan to enter. This copy was the first time I wrote. Since then I've written numerous copies lol... So maybe sometime next month I will have written a copy that satisfies me to send in.

[KateGladstone]

Yours looks about as good as some samples by past first- or second-place prize-winners.

 

Speaking of the Contest -- this past year, various "committed" sponsors quietly decided not to actually send the prizes after all: a decision that would have irked me less, if they had chosen to let me know of it *before* I finally had to ask. (Prizes for 2008, therefore, finally had to depend on the generosity of a former Contest winner.) Unless the Contest can find reliable continuing sponsorship this year, this endeavor may not continue into 2010: ending its eighteen-year history (eight years as a USA-wide contest, followed by ten years of planet-wide competition).

 

Yes, I've written to pen companies. With one exception (which later reneged), they either left the letters unanswered or responded that they did not regard contests of skill in handwriting as sufficiently related to their corporate mission.

 

I have also contacted pen-related organizations/collectors' groups. The one that answered -- whose name I shall NOT reveal, in order not to embarrass any member or officer of the organization in question -- responded that they had enough in hand at the moment that they couldn't decide to put resources into a handwriting contest (or into other endeavors to improve handwriting) unless they saw evidence that their members really had a strong desire for/interest in such projects. If anyone would like to know what specific handwriting projects (in addition to the Contest) I'd asked if they might feel like supporting, let me know and I'll summarize these on this forum.

 

 

I note that you wrote out the sample-text I request of adults entering the World Handwriting Contest, which I direct.

Do you plan to enter? If so, note that the Contest's judges look only at originals, not scans -- your scan, though, makes me eager to see you enter by sending your original!

 

 

That's very pretty writing! It's a bit round which makes it look like a young person wrote it (I think that's how they teach cursive or something). You have some nice ornamentation on it, too. I bet the teachers are very happy to read your homework. What pen/paper are you using?

 

Karen

 

 

Thanks I use a Pilot V5 extra fine pen lol, and the paper is just graph paper. I just ordered a Waterman fine nib though =]. I also started practicing writing invitations to partys / weddings using Spencerian writing technique, with a lot of flourishings. I think I may post some of that later.

 

 

 

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3909/picture063r.jpg

 

 

Yup, I plan to enter. This copy was the first time I wrote. Since then I've written numerous copies lol... So maybe sometime next month I will have written a copy that satisfies me to send in.

 

[swierski]

That's unfortunate. =[ The recognition for just 'winning' the competition would be good enough for me. Maybe also a certificate too =]

[KateGladstone]

Re:

 

That's unfortunate. ...

 

Hmmm ... how can the pen community change "unfortunate" to "unnecessary"?

[vidalia11]

That's unfortunate. =[ The recognition for just 'winning' the competition would be good enough for me. Maybe also a certificate too =]

 

I agree. A great prize would be a nicely written certificate.

 

Karen

 

[KateGladstone]

That's unfortunate. =[ The recognition for just 'winning' the competition would be good enough for me. Maybe also a certificate too =]

 

I agree. A great prize would be a nicely written certificate.

 

Karen

 

 

We actually once had certificates (in addition to other prizes), but we had to discontinue this because of logistics constraints similar to those experienced later on with other prize-giving (namely, people who had committed to write the certificates would -- to put it most charitably -- find other things to do with their time). I lack the time (as well as the skill) to letter the certificates myself to a sufficiently high standard: though I know some of you folks think pretty highly of me, as a "calligrapher" I'm just a pretty good handwriter.

 

The Contest takes place with NO budget -- our (few) judges work as volunteers, and our sponsors (when we can get them) provide and ship prizes as a voluntary effort in return for their names/logos on the "sponsors" section of the site -- because I do not want to start charging people even a nominal sum for entering.

 

For two years, I did try charging a dollar per entry in hopes to cover expenses so I could provide and ship the prizes myself, or at least pay a calligrapher to do the certificates -- and it backfired: people stopped entering, stopped allowing their students/children to enter, and sent me hate-mail on the grounds that charging any fee made it somehow "elitist" or "just a money-making endeavor" or something else they snarled at ... and (worse, in my view) many entrants and non-entrants e-mailed me or phoned me (at all hours of the day, very often between midnight and dawn) to complain angrily and loudly that, if I charged a fee and provided a certificate to winners, I was "being unfair" NOT to supply a certificate to EVERYONE who paid and entered, whether or not the entrant had actually happened to win.

 

At the time, I felt it mattered more for the Contest to continue somehow than for me to argue with people of that sort -- and I still feel that the Contest must survive in whatever way it can -- so I just shut up and went back to doing it the way I had done it: no certificates -- because I had no budget to pay anyone I'd trust to do them -- and each year's prizes (stationery sets, small pen-sets, calligraphy books, or the like) donated by whomever I could persuade, cap in hand, to select, purchase, and mail them to the winners.

 

In this way, the Contest has so far survived (by the skin of its teeth -- the ink of its nib?) threats up to -- and including -- attempts by entrants or their parents/teachers to influence results via bribery and similar means. I must recognize that the Contest could survive and thrive far better (and might have far less of a P.R. problem charging an entry-fee if necessary) if it had the backing of one or more pen-related organizations (collectors' groups? pen manufacturers) getting together and committing to prize selection/distribution (which might mean certificate preparation/distribution, if pendom can extend to nothing more). Getting reliable "prize people" (far more than anything else connected with the Contest) has posed the great quandary, these past eighteen years: a quandary perhaps beyond any one individual to solve. I can and do handle judging -- I can and do handle such P.R. as the contest has had (namely, the Contest web-page -- as well as the press releases/Internet messages about the Contest and its winners: releases/messages which, for obvious reasons, do not go out if the prizes don't go out.) Not that I wouldn't appreciate other hands to help with the press releases and such-like: but the Contest itself has to come first. (I'd rather have a reliable prize/certificate provider and "home-made" P.R., than try to set up large-scale glitzy-corporate P.R. without establishing a reliable source of certificates or other prizes.)

[R.ticle One]

It's lovely writing - the angle is pretty extreme, but your slope is very consistent, and it has excellent "flow". I really like it!

[Achim]

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9789/picture061l.jpg

 

The overall appearance is beautiful. But I think someone with little knowledge of English could have a hard time to decipher it - e.g. he might read your "new" as "meu", "now" as "mew". Or try to look at the word "would" without the context - it's next to impossible to read - could also be "mould". Your "r" tends to look like a "c", "k" like a "p" and the "v" exactly like the "u". Your name could be read as "Huiurspi". So, to make a long story short, legibility could be much improved.

 

 

Edited March 26, 2009 by Achim

[Geth]

Nice handwriting I envy you for being able to have this as your everyday writing style.

However, I do agree with what Achim just said though. English isn't my primary language, and even though I realize the word in the first sentence should be "new" I really couldn't help but wonder which letter that extra line (which makes the n look like an m) belongs to.