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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[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!