Why I’m a Better Writer with the Pen and Paper Approach
One of the very best way to connect with your own words
I’m lucky to be blessed with terrible handwriting. Not so long ago I made a conscious effort to improve it by slowing down my writing hand and attempting to “pronounce” each letter more gracefully — the sort of handwriting I usually reserve only for birthday cards and love notes.
It wasn’t long however before I started to slacken off again, returning to my usual semi-legible scribble that I alone can understand. I just didn’t have the stamina to keep up that handsome calligraphy.
There was another problem with my cleaned-up, pretend-nice handwriting too, which was that it wasn’t my own.
The “environment” of your own handwriting
The uniqueness of a person’s handwriting creates a type of secret environment. If your handwriting is as dismal as mine, you will understand what I mean. It becomes like a secret code; others simply can’t access it.
But there is more to it than just illegibility.
When I write, I do so mainly in notebooks, each of which get replaced once the pages are full. I have cupboards choked with old notebooks, which I’m unable to throw them away because they have both…
