Part 2 - Challenge! Presidents' Day International

[the flexistentialist]

Dan – thanks for the compliment! Your writing is beautiful! I've been trying to work on my normal, everyday handwriting a bit more lately. (This thread has giving me lots of inspiration for that) Sadly, I just don't have the courage to bring my precious fountain pens to work yet, so pencil gets me through my lunch-hour practice. I'll hopefully have a chance to scan my pen-versions later on. In the meanwhile, I may have to invest in some less-precious fountain pens that can survive the land of cubes and the pen pilferers that stalk these grounds.

 

the flexistentialist

[isoc]

  On 2/13/2014 at 2:05 PM, the flexistentialist said:

Dan – thanks for the compliment! Your writing is beautiful! I've been trying to work on my normal, everyday handwriting a bit more lately. (This thread has giving me lots of inspiration for that) Sadly, I just don't have the courage to bring my precious fountain pens to work yet, so pencil gets me through my lunch-hour practice. I'll hopefully have a chance to scan my pen-versions later on. In the meanwhile, I may have to invest in some less-precious fountain pens that can survive the land of cubes and the pen pilferers that stalk these grounds.

 

the flexistentialist

I found the Pilot Metropolitan writes well and is inexpensive; my second choice would be a Parker Urban. But it depends on what you think of as less-precious (inexpensive) and what you expect the pen to do.

 

I enjoyed your contributions to the contest.

 

- Ted

[Apprenti]

  On 2/13/2014 at 2:05 PM, the flexistentialist said:

Dan thanks for the compliment! Your writing is beautiful! I've been trying to work on my normal, everyday handwriting a bit more lately. (This thread has giving me lots of inspiration for that) Sadly, I just don't have the courage to bring my precious fountain pens to work yet, so pencil gets me through my lunch-hour practice. I'll hopefully have a chance to scan my pen-versions later on. In the meanwhile, I may have to invest in some less-precious fountain pens that can survive the land of cubes and the pen pilferers that stalk these grounds.

 

the flexistentialist

My only pen at the moment is a Noodler's Creaper. It's absolutely awful, so I have no problems bringing it to school!!!

 

I like your writing, and I'm a huge Abbott and Costello fan (despite the fact I'm probably not old enough to have heard of them). I'd love to see some penned versions later!!!

 

Thanks

Joe

[the flexistentialist]

Thanks all! I'm hoping to have my penned versions up this evening.

 

isoc – I will definitely need to look into the Metropolitan and the Urban. I can't say I expect much from my "work pens" at the moment. Anything would be an improvement over the rollerballs around the office. I venture toward the pencils because they're the only thing fine enough to not turn my handwriting into a blob. Thanks for the tip!

 

Apprenti – That's where I started. My first fountain pen was a Noodler's Creeper. I can't complain about its performance at all. There's a lot of tips out there for making them less awful if it's not writing up to par too. After some seriously inky fingers I finally got mine writing how I like and now I'm paranoid about bringing it into the world. (Precious resin indeed)

 

I'm hoping that even after this contest is over, sentences can still be added to this thread. It's been so much fun trying out the different practice sentences. I was pondering giving my written versions their own practice notebook and I'd love to see it fill up.

 

The flexistentialist

[Apprenti]

  On 2/13/2014 at 7:39 PM, the flexistentialist said:

Thanks all! I'm hoping to have my penned versions up this evening.

 

isoc – I will definitely need to look into the Metropolitan and the Urban. I can't say I expect much from my "work pens" at the moment. Anything would be an improvement over the rollerballs around the office. I venture toward the pencils because they're the only thing fine enough to not turn my handwriting into a blob. Thanks for the tip!

 

Apprenti – That's where I started. My first fountain pen was a Noodler's Creeper. I can't complain about its performance at all. There's a lot of tips out there for making them less awful if it's not writing up to par too. After some seriously inky fingers I finally got mine writing how I like and now I'm paranoid about bringing it into the world. (Precious resin indeed)

 

I'm hoping that even after this contest is over, sentences can still be added to this thread. It's been so much fun trying out the different practice sentences. I was pondering giving my written versions their own practice notebook and I'd love to see it fill up.

 

The flexistentialist

 

 

I've tried everything and now, although it writes ok, it leaks.

 

In later news, made a stupid mistake with one of my pen cases a minute ago. I used the same length as I had done in the past and, for some unknown reason, the case is too short!!! It's especially annoying as I'm running out of leather and I needed to NOT waste it, now I've got a 4-pen case that's only good for pens shorter than an Ahab (of which I have none).

 

Not happy. Perhaps some therapeutic writing will help?

 

Joe

[kiavonne]

  On 2/13/2014 at 7:39 PM, the flexistentialist said:

 

I'm hoping that even after this contest is over, sentences can still be added to this thread. It's been so much fun trying out the different practice sentences. I was pondering giving my written versions their own practice notebook and I'd love to see it fill up.

 

The flexistentialist

 

When this challenge is over, I plan to take all the sentences from the challenges and post them in a separate thread, and probably call it Difficult Words Practice Sentences, and encourage folks to add new sentences and old sentences alike, for what they like to practice for everyone to share. At least a search on "practice sentence" or "difficult words" would both bring it up, and there would be no confusion after the challenge as to whether a contest was still going on. I'll probably ask the admin/mods to lock the original threads, so there won't be that confusion in the future (we all know how threads sometimes come back from the dead letter files).

Edited February 14, 2014 by kiavonne

[the flexistentialist]

Well I got everything written, just not scanned last night. (Sorry for the delay).
Here's my fountain pen versions of my last two sentences. Moleskine + Wahl Eversharp ring top + Monteverde black ink from a Goulet sample.

 

 

 

 

I love the idea of this continuing on as a new thread once the contest is over. I've gotten back into a habit of practicing again because of this thread and can only imagine what fun it'll inspire when it keeps going!

 

Thanks so much for this!

 

The flexistentialist

[Apprenti]

Wait, you're writing on a moleskine?! How? I've got a little plain one that I got as a birthday present and it feathers like toilet roll or something!!!

 

Great handwriting, thank you for sharing

Joe

[kingcobradude]

this one is a bit longer, but I do write a bit large.

[kingcobradude]

this one is shorter, but uses those 2 insanely long words (though the town name one I used a shortened version due to it already being difficult enough.)

 

why would you even try to write those words? I could go on about Kennedy's speech about going to the moon, and doing it because it is hard. that, and if you can write that, you should be able to write just about anything fairly easily.

 

I also had some difficulty with the pen not writing, kind of like the paper had some sort of wax on it. I now think I know why.

Edited February 15, 2014 by kingcobradude

[kiavonne]

Thank you, Clay. The attempt is the fun part.

[kingcobradude]

  On 2/15/2014 at 7:16 AM, kiavonne said:

Thank you, Clay. The attempt is the fun part.

I have a couple more for tomorrow.

until then a tip: Never store FP paper and candles in the same drawer.

[Apprenti]

  On 2/15/2014 at 8:14 AM, kingcobradude said:

I have a couple more for tomorrow.

until then a tip: Never store FP paper and candles in the same drawer.

I'll make a note of that in the future, thanks

[Apprenti]

Good entry by the way, I like to see what other people's handwriting is like and the variety shown in this thread is lovely

 

Thanks,

Joe

[kingcobradude]

  Quote

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantysiliogogogoch is a village in Wales, and a Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän is a captain for the steamship company Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, of which the Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is a suborginization.

 

just one I came up for the ultimate challenge. no, I am not handwriting that one. at least not now anyway

[attika89]

I've decided to put together an other one:

While the practice sentence's function is the practice, the main part is the joy of writing, the difficult combinations, challenging connections, and the result is not only for pure aestheticism, nor just for the maintenance of motions from the collaboration of brain, muscles and a fountain pen, its also an assessment for ourselves about which way we should go, or that if we are on the right track for a dizzyingly beautiful experience, a solemn idiosyncrasy when the rhythm comes naturally, and when you can reach a state of mind where everything flows almost effortlessly, and in the end the most flabbergasted will be YOU yourself gazing at your penmanship what shows the joy what worth showscasing!

 

http://kepfeltoltes.hu/140216/P1170972_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg

 

There are some mistakes here and there, sorry for that

[Apprenti]

Very nice, I love the fact you've written a practice sentence about practice sentences

[kiavonne]

Just another 6 hours remain to submit entries! This challenge ends at midnight my time in Colorado, USA!

[DanF]

Here are two more entries from me, I somehow managed to muster a modicum of restraint, and came in under a page for both of them.

 

 

A warm Mississippi zephyr greeted Dr Kenneth Hoffman as he disembarked the aircraft at Biloxi, zigzagging across the tarmac to avoid the multitudinous puddles, and eventually locating his host and mentor : Dr Geoffry Bekkatz-Quinn, head of Ornithology at William & Mary College in Virginia, and author of the New York Times bestseller: Easy Bird Identification, who quizzically raised an eyebrow upon noticing the whippoorwill image affixed to Hoffman's baggage as it arrived on the carrousel.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l279/T-Caster/DSC_1253.jpg

and ...

Undeterred by obvious political and philosophical differences, affable

Senators Woodrow Ibbotson of North Dakota, and Bridgette Quiggly of Kentucky accelerated the rollout of their frequently ballyhooed program - to guarantee that every anxious farmer from Mississippi to Tennessee will have maximal opportunity to successfully purvey their newly endangered commodity - and were now zigzagging across the nation on behalf of the American Federation of Rutabaga Growers, promulgating plans to permanently annihilate the plague of pernicious and appallingly plentiful Mammoth Grasshopper, a gigantic Hexapod that hitchhiked here from Egypt, and have since been devastating the vulnerable vegetable throughout the southland.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l279/T-Caster/DSC_1254.jpg

I hope I will be forgiven for straying beyond the given word list for these last two, but having done two from there already, I was feeling a bit constrained, but did work in most of the capitals and difficult combinations on the list.

Dan

[Adalwolfa13]

Hi, I have been lurking on these boards for a few weeks now and came across this thread. It sounded like so much fun that I had to try to come up with a story too... I don't think I can get an image of my writing this up in time. It was fun to write though

While working in Egypt as a paparazzi I accidently flabbergasted my chauffeur again with my bugaboo while eating my baguette and coffee. I was anxious to commission a bookkeeper for my difficult effort in Clackmannanshire where I successfully equipped a genuine giraffe to access the sheriff to trigger maintenance on the telecommunication. I was disappointed that he was not as fluffy as a kitten. The conceivableness of the affair disappointed Don Juan and the beggar.

Edited February 17, 2014 by Adalwolfa13