Handwriting Practice with Lamy

[TurtleWax]

Hey guys! After hearing Lamy recommended by quite a few forum members, I bought myself a Lamy Safari pen! I am one of those people that always has a notebook of some sort, and I write down everything. (Drives my family crazy! 'You have a smartphone, why don't you just use that?')

In spite of the amount of writing I do, my penmanship is abysmal. I was wondering if anybody on the forums had recommended methods to practice handwriting! I'm currently fluent in chicken scratch, but I never learned cursive. Thanks!

[Curlyjbe]

Goulet Pen.com have a Cursive Workbook. Saw it on their site this morning. May meet your need. Good luck. Janet

[Badger]

The book on gouletpens.com is by CursiveLogic: How to Write in Cursive in 4 Simple Lessons | CursiveLogic

It's designed for kids but I'm not sure if that should put you off. Doug Lane (of modernstationer.com) used it with his son and seemed to have good results.

If you want something more exhaustive, take a look at the International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting site: Welcome to IAMPETH! | IAMPETH site

There are also resources available if you search fountainpennetwork.com.

Good luck!




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[TurtleWax]

Thank you so much Janet & Badger, I have no problem with resources made for children, I am learning from the ground up, after all. I am very excited that the IAMPETH page has a section for left-handers! I am almost ambidextrous, but I prefer my left hand for writing and quick notes.

Thanks again guys, super excited to look through these resources.

[abires]

https://www.docdroid.net/file/download/oxwk/theory-of-the-spencerian-method-of-papractical-penmanship-and-five-copybooks.pdf

The first part is related to penmanship theory. The additional sections are workbooks that can be printed off as desired to practice with.

[adalangdon]

https://www.docdroid.net/file/downlo...-copybooks.pdf

The first part is related to penmanship theory. The additional sections are workbooks that can be printed off as desired to practice with.

I like the old copybooks/handwriting manuals and have used them a lot myself. (I write a Palmer/Zaner "business" hand.) The pages devoted to arm movement (essentially, one should write with a combination of forearm and finger movement), positioning, etc. may seem antiquated and bizarre, but they're actually very important if you want to write comfortably and for long periods of time, and crucial to reproducing the correct forms. On the arm movement point, I can speak to the benefits of writing like that-- when I took my bar exams I never experienced hand cramp, and recently took 10 pages of fairly decent verbatim meeting minutes without cramping. We aren't always allowed to type meeting minutes, so it is important for me to be able to write fast since we are expected to take notes verbatim (and I don't know shorthand).

If you use pen and paper a lot in your daily life, learning old-fashioned cursive is fun and useful.

[TurtleWax]

Thank you for the link, abires, and for the advice and insight, adalangdon.

I spend the vast majority of my day typing or writing, so I do think it is very important to learn how to do so efficiently! I have invested time improving my typing skills, but have neglected my writing.
I am struggling with the hand position from the Spencerian method (My nails are very short and my hand can't glide on them?), but after trying out the forearm muscle movement, I do see how it would be very useful. I'm not sure how much of this I can just take a mirror to & use left handed?

[backpack]

Iampeth guidelines are the best.

They allow practices like a grownup with all the vertical lines to achieve a lovely slant and/or use to space words, and, the horizontal lines have a wide enough gap between them to form big letters which helps when learning cursive.