Going through the square window...

[robinbloke]

I don't write anymore, that is to say about the only time I actually pick up a pen and scribe something is when I find myself using block capitals, then again forms aren't exactly the haute couture of authorship.
Actually writing a letter does seem more personal, but I don't remember when I last did one - about the closest to it that I managed is scribbling brief weird messages in Christmas cards.
But then writing itself for me has never really flowed, if I want my handwriting to look, well, legable, then I have to write pretty slowly and invariably I find my hand cramping after a few pages. Tying? I can type for hours; my fingers don't even need my brain to be engaged in order to produce reams of pixellated text. I'm not exactly an artist either, my hands fail have any sort of ability to draw anything beyond basic lines and cobra mark threes.

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[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Ditto - with the result that my actual lower case handwriting is now almost completely illegible. Actually, that can be quite an advantage when filling out an aircraft technical log or an air safety report:
"Of course that says [insert whatever so-and-so actually wanted to read in the first place]"

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Heh. So pilots handwriting is similar to doctors?

[scy11a.livejournal.com]

Actually, only Captains. The First officers are mainly responsible for the day-to-day paperwork and log keeping, and many have impeccable writing. It is, of course, a well known fact taht you cannot get promoted to captain until your writing has reached a suitable degree of illegibility for the reasons I stated above : )

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I used to cover my notebooks with ships from Elite :)

Muhaha, think, think, thinnnnnnnnk!

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I'm unusual in this these days, but I still find myself needing to write a lot of stuff by hand pretty much every day. I write shopping lists, jot down recipes, make notes of ideas for tutorials, plan handouts and draw diagrams, do maths (very cumbersome to do on a computer!), jot down comments in the margins of books, write comments neatly on students' essays and on report forms... I do a lot of typing too, but for quite a different set of purposes.

I have two sets of handwriting: one, formed at school, which other people can read; and one, formed at university through years of intensive super-fast note-taking, which only I can read reliably!

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

This is another reason I tend to write in block caps; so I can read it!

[deborah_c]

When I used to suffer through Art lessons at school, pretty much the only time I was vaguely competent was on the rare occasions when we got to do design-y things, where straight lines (or at least very basic curves) were all that were needed.

It wasn't until my mid-20s that I discovered that I could draw things like buildings and street scenes quite well, even if they were fairly complicated and twiddly buildings -- straight lines are fine for this, there are just an awful lot of them! (I also discovered that I draw much better if I draw in fine pen, not pencil, because I'm forced to go on and make the best of what I've done rather than endlessly rubbing things out until I have to throw the page away because I've drilled a hole through it :-)

I still can't begin to draw people, though.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I can draw vague swirls and mish-mashes :)