Describe your handwriting...

[poniesthatsparkle]

Sometimes my handwriting is clear, and other times it isn't. I'm pretty lazy and don't always pick up my pencil so lots of letters get jumbled together. Also, I never learned cursive, but I can read it with no problem most of the time.

[Galactica]

In a word, "illegible"

[Taffeta]

Mine has been described as 'a drunk spider walking across the page'.
Hows yours?

Funny. I've used that explanation in a story before to describe a character's scrawl. I guess there are a lot of drunk spiders around O.o xD

Mine? Messy. Though it is actually the neatest in my family if I want it to be, because I worked in a job where I had to write clearly for students with problems reading (dyslexia etc) and so I had to make sure I could be legible. But generally it's quite messy. It also changes...I don't always write the same letter the same way.

I have the distinction of writing messily in two languages, too, as my Japanese handwriting is apparently also full of bad habits. I used to write it neatly. But you know, when you write fast >.>. Though I admit I write kanji less than I used to thanks to computer options and so I guess that made it worse as well.

I tend to think of my normal handwriting (in English) as being hentaigana English, because of my habit of switching out different versions of letters like a and s and z and so on. Hentaigana is basically alternate forms of different characters in Japanese which got standardised in the 1940s but before that there were multiple ways of writing certain phonetic sounds (and they used to be written in really squiggly script as well).
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/hentaigana-history-of-japanese-writing-system/
If anyone is interested or confused >.>

In two words, I guess hentaigana kuzushiji.

And for anyone who doesn't know what that is, imagine an English language version of this...
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[Harmonie]

When I write neatly, I've been told it looks like that of a teenage girl's. However, my writing in general - like when I take notes in class - is awful. lol

[tulagirl]

Mine changes constantly. I can write the same sentence each day, fill a page, and it looks like each was done by different people. So I guess it could be described as "that's freaky, you should be locked up"

I'm jealous of people who have consistent writing and signature.

   You must be my long lost twin.  This is totally me.

[glitterball]

I seem to have a few styles!

Way back at school, we had notes dictated to us and we had to write FAST so I developed a semi-cursive flowing style for that. Only I seem to be able to read it, though, haha!

When writing notes in birthday cards, I use cursive for adults and print for kids (or if I am having a bad-handwriting day, printing wins out!!)

Organiser notes are done in semi-cursive in tiny script; my fave pen is a simple, Bic Crystalline (fine) nib in black. I just find these pens the most reliable for me.

I leave ink roller-balls and felt tips for art projects. I also have vintage nibs and dip-pens, but these are more for art, rather than writing. My fountain pens are a joy to use BUT only if I have blotting paper to hand, I used to keep one in my handbag for cheques but lack of blotting papers made for smudged results - the Bic won!

Pencils - I often opt for a 2B instead of an HB as the result is darker, which I like. I have a few Palomino Blackwing pencils - expensive, but they keep a hard, sharp point for longer yet have a nice, dark result. Always have one of those to hand! Plus they look cool 

My Dad was a draughtsman and was disciplined in both pencil and ink work (before he moved on to CAD digital drawings) so he has a very stylised hand that still shows through to this day, but even he admits that it looks less refined since he used computers! 

[RoseNoire]

Well, I used my tablet to write and example. How would you describe it ? It's curly, a bit italic (I'm left-Handed) and well, I tend to join the roof when I don't have lines to follow. xD Of course, I can make it better. That was a quick example.

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[SnorkMaiden]

Interesting question. I used to write in a pretty curly cursive, which looked nice, but people who'd never learned cursive found it hard to read. A few years ago, when I had a job that required me to write comments that had to be legible to others, I trained myself to print. For a while, I was writing in cursive in private and printing at work. These days, I find it easier to print all the time, though my writing is still rather curly.

[LadyMoondancer]

My handwriting is pretty legible, but not 'beautiful' or anything.  I print although I will sometimes connect letters if it's convenient.

I was taught cursive in grade school, though. A complete waste of time IMO.  I hate my handwriting in cursive and writing in it always made my hand hurt.

[BlackCurtains]

I learned cursive too. That's one thing that makes my writing so wacky. I go back and forth between the two. It's a major problem with my signature.

[Tulips]

I've had multiple people tell me I should be a doctor because of my handwriting alone. I try to make an effort to neaten it when others need to understand what I've written, but if it's just notes to myself even I need context clues to remember what it may say sometimes.

To try and describe it: the letters run into each other, become disjointed or misplaced, or skipped altogether. When I write 'the' it looks more like tl~ (t l squiggle)... Lol

Interestingly, I vaugely remember something about scientific research encouraging handwriting more often for improved mental health?

[Mewtwofan1]

My handwriting is rather messy, but you can still read it. My old science teacher told me I write in hieroglyphs. I’ve made an effort to make it more legible, but my brain still goes faster than my hands.

[Skeen]

Mine changes so much - even on the same page and in the same paragraph! - that it looks like different people wrote it. 

[melodys_angel]

if im rushing it looks like doctor scribble.

Otherwise it can be pretty neat--though I prefer printing to cursive.

[DazzleKitty]

Mine fluctuates. Sometimes it looks really nice, and the other time it looks like chicken scratch. I love pretty handwriting and really wish mine was always nice.