Just Jot It January # 14 – Writing

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 14th, 2024

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The prompt for today is ‘writing’. I write some stuff every day. Can you call typing writing? I guess so. At least it’s easy to do, and easy to correct a mistake. You just delete, no pen/pencil scratch outs!

I’m going at this prompt not about writing assignments, or essays, or poems, or stories, but the actual taking of pen/pencil and making those marks on paper that we call handwriting.

A word people use for handwriting is ‘cursive’. I never heard that word until recently. It sounds weird, like you are cursing, saying a bad word about writing. I don’t know, just how it strikes me. Some children these days don’t even know how to do it. My daughter is for sure teaching my grand-daughter to write, and I’m glad.

So, I’ve written several things about the subject before, so this is just a combination of a couple of those posts. I still think the same way about it.

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I’m a fan of handwriting. I like to write everything down in all kinds of notebooks, and have a lot of them.

I don’t know how those handwriting experts can tell things about a person by looking at their handwriting, though. I guess there’s some science to it. I know for me, I like to try writing different ways. It also depends on if I’m writing in a hurry, jotting something down, or going slowly trying to make it look pretty. It also makes a difference with what you use to write with, be it a marker, a ball-point pen, an old fashioned ink pen, or pencils.

I remember I got into trouble at school once, I think it was 5th grade, because I tended to slant my writing toward the left instead of to the right, like the books said you were supposed to. Whatever…I didn’t change how I wrote after that, either.

I do believe every person’s handwriting style is unique to them. I know I’ve gotten letters and such from people and immediately know who it from just by seeing the handwriting. I’ll bet you have, too. 🙂

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I think people’s handwriting changes over the years, and I know mine did. I once got in trouble at school, because I slanted my writing to the left, instead of the right, like they wanted us to. Later on, I guess we weren’t graded on our handwriting, so we just wrote however we wanted. It seems fine however you write, as long as you can read it.

For a few years I took shorthand writing, and that was fun. I used to be good at it, but now I’ve forgotten most of it. At one job I had, I took shorthand dictation for letters, and then typed them up.

An interesting job to have would be to analyze handwriting samples, but I don’t know how they’d do it. I know I write a bit different every time I do write something.

I’m not sure what we are supposed to show here, but here’s some of mine.

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