Comments on: How to Improve Your Handwriting (or Anything Else) at Will http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/ The gentle art of sanity amidst civilization Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:44:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The Mugwumpery » Blog Archive » A Day in the Future http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-15699 The Mugwumpery » Blog Archive » A Day in the Future Fri, 20 May 2011 01:15:59 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-15699 [...] know how to cook anything worthy of serving to someone else. Grown men have have childlike handwriting. Almost nobody knows how to [...] [...] know how to cook anything worthy of serving to someone else. Grown men have have childlike handwriting. Almost nobody knows how to [...]

]]> By: Kayla http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-14656 Kayla Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:19:37 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-14656 I'm a girl, and I have terrible handwriting. I'm always embarrassed to let other people see what I have written. When I was little, I was a tomboy, probably because I have three older brothers (I've always said I was meant to be a guy, I'm horrible at all of the "girly" things). Oh yeah, I'm also left handed, so everything gets smudged up too. I think I'm going to go practice my handwriting right now :) I’m a girl, and I have terrible handwriting. I’m always embarrassed to let other people see what I have written. When I was little, I was a tomboy, probably because I have three older brothers (I’ve always said I was meant to be a guy, I’m horrible at all of the “girly” things). Oh yeah, I’m also left handed, so everything gets smudged up too. I think I’m going to go practice my handwriting right now :)

]]> By: janet http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-13216 janet Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:06:43 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-13216 hi thanksfor this ! hi thanksfor this !

]]> By: David http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-13180 David Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:46:51 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-13180 Oh I am! :) But still not very mature. Oh I am! :)

But still not very mature.
David´s last [type] ..If The World Was Populated by Six Billion of Me- I’d Totally Be Gay

]]> By: Dusty http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-13179 Dusty Wed, 12 Jan 2011 02:34:59 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-13179 I'm not a dude - at least, not last time I checked - but I assure you, my handwriting is AWFUL. (And yes, I know you said generally. :) ) Even as a child, when I wrote by hand every day, my writing was atrocious. As a teenager, though, long after it would have made any difference I was "diagnosed" as a "gifted child" - one of the symptoms being that gifted children have atrocious handwriting because they try to write as fast as they think. My first thought was, "Wait, you mean most people don't do that?" I'm not entirely sure I believe it, but if you write every day and your handwriting is still awful - could just be that you're very intelligent. I’m not a dude – at least, not last time I checked – but I assure you, my handwriting is AWFUL. (And yes, I know you said generally. :) ) Even as a child, when I wrote by hand every day, my writing was atrocious. As a teenager, though, long after it would have made any difference I was “diagnosed” as a “gifted child” – one of the symptoms being that gifted children have atrocious handwriting because they try to write as fast as they think.

My first thought was, “Wait, you mean most people don’t do that?”

I’m not entirely sure I believe it, but if you write every day and your handwriting is still awful – could just be that you’re very intelligent.

]]> By: Apples and Porsches » Blog Archive » Wholestyle on the Web: Week of 10/16/09 http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-8208 Apples and Porsches » Blog Archive » Wholestyle on the Web: Week of 10/16/09 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:07:25 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-8208 [...] Raptitude: How to Improve Your Handwriting (Or Anything Else) at Will [...] [...] Raptitude: How to Improve Your Handwriting (Or Anything Else) at Will [...]

]]> By: pannonica http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-6115 pannonica Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:17:22 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-6115 No need to go cold turkey and short circuit your brain. Write at a speed that suits your thoughts. Then rewrite. And rewrite again. And again. Rote is how they wrote in the good old days of enforced penmanship. Just because you may (think you) know how to hold a guitar doesn't mean you know how to play it. Practice makes better! (Perfection doesn't exist.) No need to go cold turkey and short circuit your brain. Write at a speed that suits your thoughts. Then rewrite. And rewrite again. And again. Rote is how they wrote in the good old days of enforced penmanship. Just because you may (think you) know how to hold a guitar doesn’t mean you know how to play it. Practice makes better! (Perfection doesn’t exist.)

]]> By: pannonica http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-6113 pannonica Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:56:20 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-6113 Should be allowed to write in mirror-image. Easy enough to accomplish and reading in reverse is similarly an easily-acquired skill, so teachers haven't any legs to stand on. Who knows? If there was a more flexible yet attentive approach to orthography perhaps dyslexia would diminish. .-= pannonica´s last blog ..<a href="http://pannonica.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/watch-this-space/" rel="nofollow">Watch this space.</a> =-. Should be allowed to write in mirror-image. Easy enough to accomplish and reading in reverse is similarly an easily-acquired skill, so teachers haven’t any legs to stand on. Who knows? If there was a more flexible yet attentive approach to orthography perhaps dyslexia would diminish.
.-= pannonica´s last blog ..Watch this space. =-.

]]> By: David http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-6106 David Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:06:57 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-6106 I know what you mean, about losing neatness while gaining character. I think that's happening to me too. I know what you mean, about losing neatness while gaining character. I think that’s happening to me too.

]]> By: David http://www.raptitude.com/2009/10/how-to-improve-your-handwriting-or-anything-else-at-will/#comment-6105 David Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:05:45 +0000 http://www.raptitude.com/?p=2210#comment-6105 Your'e right, patience is so uncool these days. I'm in a place right now (Hollyhock) where everyone is exceedingly patient, and it's taken some getting used to. Your’e right, patience is so uncool these days. I’m in a place right now (Hollyhock) where everyone is exceedingly patient, and it’s taken some getting used to.

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