Fountain Pen Lovers With Bad Handwriting

[benay148]

I just recently started on this forum, and have already learned a ton. I am very new to fountain pens but i can feel the obsession starting. There are many examples of beautiful handwriting on this forum. Are there a lot of members that have terrible handwriting but still love fountain pens?

[WirsPlm]

There's an excellent reason that none of my reviews shows actual handwriting (also, try italics! They make you slow down a bit and automatically class your writing up a bit, I like the Pilot Plumix or the Sheaffer intro italics for regular writing).

[Wolverine1]

Well, I had very good handwriting, which I learnt in Catholic school back in India and Australia. But, in 2011, I suffered a series of strokes, and initially, I couldnt even hold a pen, leave aside write. I can write now, but, my handwriting is rather bad, but, I still love fountain pens, and I write with them every day!!!!!:)

[NewFPU]

Most certainly I do!

 

 

Myste

[TheGreatRoe]

***awkwardly raises hand***

 

I'm actually embarassed when I handwrite a note to another member.

[kitsrock]

Yup. Another one here.

 

I was over at Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us! topic not so long ago, and refused to handwrite notes because I was so self-conscious of my bad handwriting, especially compared to some people there.

[Opooh]

As long the chemist can read my prescriptions there is no problem.

[dunhamsa]

I am trying to relearn cursive. From the state of my journal entries, I doubt I will be letting the FPN view my progress any time soon.

[Aramchek]

I've also always had bad handwriting, which is due to my poor motor skills. Very common amongst people with Asperger's syndrome.

[Sandy1]

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[Garageboy]

I have horrible handwriting with ball points, and to an extent, pencils

FPs make my writing legible

[hbdk]

Ohh yes - you are not alone. In the first 4 years in school I learned 3 different writing styles! Never really got the hang of it after that. My writing is slightly more legible with a fountain pen though. I am training a lot at the moment, but my writing still looks 3rd grade-stressed pupil-imature'ish

 

Probably also got something to do with my motor skills. I always wanted to draw and paint, but no matter the amount of training, I never succeeded - so I ended up doing photography instead...

Edited November 12, 2013 by hbdk

[Nokin]

Left-handed underwriter here.........enough said!

[nekosan]

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[MisterBoll]

There is nothing wrong with your writing as long as it is legible.

 

I dig individuality in people and how they write.

 

No need to conform to the norm - it's dull, unimaginative, and shows no style.

 

Now.............if your job is calligraphy - it's another story.

[Inkysloth]

I had to have special needs handwriting lessons when I was 11, which were very frustrating sessions, given my reading ability was in the top 0.1%, and the second half of the lesson was spent reading "Tom and Jane went to the park" type books. AGH.

 

Put me off fountain pens for years, as we had to use these stupid blue long fountain pens, with tiny fiddly little caps, making us learn curly cursive. Seriously, what twit thought that would *help* kids who were struggling to write, write more legibly?! All that happened was I ended up covered in ink, and hating joined-up writing.

I learned in my early 20s that I'm Dyspraxic (as well as on the Autistic Spectrum - *waves* to Aramchek) which made a lot of things, including my poor handwriting, make sense. Now I've learned if I can be in a calm space, and am well rested & comfortable, I can produce very nice writing. But my ability to process additional stimuli *whilst* doing something requiring fine motor skills makes everything go to pot. Classrooms are not my friend, basically.

 

I struggle with calligraphy, I can learn a basic level, but my fine motor skills are just not quite good enough to get consistent results, I tend to exaggerate movements, and struggle with straight lines. I love calligraphy though, and I'll sit and practice the alphabet for hours, or just doodling the same series of curves and lines, enjoying the feel of the nib on paper.

[irrigger]

Yup. Another one here.

 

I was over at Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us! topic not so long ago, and refused to handwrite notes because I was so self-conscious of my bad handwriting, especially compared to some people there.

[Tom Traubert]

Sorry, my scanner cut the 's' off 'nibs' on the first line. Also, the TWSBI is my new Diamond 580. I originally got the fine point, but after using my cheapo Pilot 78G stub I exchanged it, having realised that it's stubs or bust for me really, except my Parker 51 Vac which is just too smoooooth to consider anything but the medium nib it already has.

Edited November 12, 2013 by jrgard

[N2theBreach]

I don't compare my handwriting with some of the outstanding writing that some of the members can create. We're in two different leagues. I get the occasional complement on my writing, but it can't compare to what I've seen here. Having said that, my cursive has improved since I began using an FP.

 

I rooted around this forum and the wider web, looked at e-copies of old texts, decided what I wanted, and when I started practicing, realized that it was the style I was taught in 1960-1961. That probably says something, I'm just not sure what.

[SteveE]

I can write, or I can scribble. I can read either one, myself. My scribble is clearly atrocious, legible only to me, and even then sometimes only when the context is known. My writing isn't that much better. I learned cursive (mostly Palmer method) in the early 1950's in the Chicago Public Schools.

 

As critical as I am of my own writing, it is still better than most of the people in my office. I attribute that to the extra care that using an FP draws from me, and to the fact that when using a fountain pen I actually enjoy the act of writing. That which we enjoy, we usually do better.