Oh, it's legible enough, most of the time, but it's far from classy.
It's far from what I want it to be.
Putting it that way makes me realize that it's become what I wanted it to be a long time ago: as a teen, I thought that a highly-stylized, highly-casual handwriting would be a good marker of my independence and ... oh, I don't know. Something "fancy free," perhaps. Unique. Identifying.
And I bet it is identifying! But especially as my use of computers has become more frequent, and my occasions for handwriting have become less so, it's become unpredictable, and sometimes it's downright difficult to read. (The thought, "Good luck decoding my journal, future generations!" has occurred to me more than once...)
I want to fix that.
So that's my one very specific goal for this year: improving my handwriting.
Unfortunately, as I was all geared-up to show you how horrid my writing is, I've produced one of my more legible writing samples. Go figure. But it'll get better with practice!
And someday, once I'm re-accustomed to writing with more than my fingertips, I might even manage to get a hand-written thank-you note in the mail again. :)
That is a good goal. Marc has horrible hand writing and it looks more like hen scratching than anything else. I wouldn't mind him practicing a little bit on that as well. :)
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a sophomore in high school, I decided I liked the way my chemistry teacher made his lowercase 'a's, (which are like typed 'a's), so over Christmas vacation that year I worked very hard to change my 'a' handwriting as I was keeping a vacation log. And I succeeded!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to change your handwriting, you'll have to find excuses to write, and you'll have to make yourself slow down and be artistically creative with your writing style.
Good luck!