handwriting

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Has it outlived its usefulness where you're concerned?

[jynxxxedangel]

I save handwriting only for the most intimate of letters, these days. How odd the pen feels in my hand, though..!

[Jessika Fxckin rocks (1)]

I'm always told mine looks like a seral killers hand writing

[StormKnight (1)]

I came from a place where handwritten order sets were the norm. No computer order database that would pop up the medication dose, route, and pharmacy availability. where you can't write qd (qui die=each day) for mistaking it for qid (quater in die=four times a day.) Now many orders written by my colleagues and bosses were kind of hard to read. Most of the calls I get for orders were for the poor clerk or nurse who couldn't read those orders, and I had to translate Doctor Rushian. I prided myself on keeping my written orders legible. And my scripts for controlled substances were hand written in print to be legible for legal purposes. for non-scheduled medications, I could be a little more lax in the precision. While I have a heavy hand with my writing, It was legible.

[Homicidalheathen]

nope

most of my lyrics and spiritual writings are in pencil...sometimes they make it onto my puter...sometimes not

pencil I can carry around and erase and such

besides...when creativity flow...pencils seem to be a good medium, I get stiffled at the computer and lose my inspiration

I must write it out in pencil or pen first

[candyman]

I write better with a pencil...can't control a pen...and suck at typing...and I have been told I write like a girl

[Homicidalheathen]

one of my old bosses would make sure new employees could write well cause we posted to the ledger by hand everyday then backed up on the puter

she had a math test she would give to see if your writting was neat

[Destroit]

I'm working on a novel or three, so I carry around a book and pen to jot things down in as they come to me. Other than that I'm anywhere from 110-125 AWPM and haven't had the desire to use a pen or pencil since 8th grade. I was the only kid that they let use a computer for every assignment because I hold pencils and pens wrong and no matter how much they tried to correct this I just cannot write holding a pencil the "correct" way. The way I hold a pencil not only causes my handwriting to come out exorcist style so that only I know what I wrote, but it causes MASSIVE pain in my wrist, whereas typing isn't uncomfortable and doesn't hurt at all (not to mention is neater and about four times faster).

[pomba gira]

Writing by hand is an expression of creativity... I love doing fancy printing. For anything extended tho, these days I'm usually too impatient to write by hand. Back in the days before computers, I did all my writing by hand... couldn't create on a typewriter for some reason.

Now, CURSIVE writing is a total anachronism AFA I'm concerned. Too hard to read for one thing, which as Storm Knight pointed out can be a serious issue. I know what he's talking about, having spent quite a few years working in the health care field and trying to decipher the typical illegible doctor handwriting. We used to joke that a person's handwriting deteriorated more each year they spent in school. I hate having to teach cursive writing 'cos it seems so pointless. The only reason I deigned to do it this year is that someone pointed out "well they at least need to know how to sign their names!" Which I had to agree with.

[GothicRavenGoddess (3)]

my handwriting is so girly and pretty and loopy that its near impossible to read. its like calligraphy minus all the decorative stuff... I'll write something and scan it and post it, sometime soon.. its too late/early to do it now.. iz a tired girl lol

my print isn't much better, with weird e's, and cursive f's, and letters looped together, like whatever's next to an e, or an a, or something like that, it gets connected to the next letter... lol I'll show you, you'll see.... my typing is MUCH better.. and I'm more creative with a computer, than I am with a pen..... that use to not be the case, though... all spells and poetry and fan fiction are written on paper... most of the time.. well, spells and poetry are, anyways...

[Troy Spiral (13)]

The skill of handwriting is of course on the decline just as a blanket statement. But it has so many uses still , and is just fun for some people a total retardation of handwriting wont happen anytime soon. I really used to love calligraphy but that has fallen by the wayside recently.

I came from a place where handwritten order sets were the norm. No computer order database that would pop up the medication dose, route, and pharmacy availability. where you can't write qd (qui die=each day) for mistaking it for qid (quater in die=four times a day.) Now many orders written by my colleagues and bosses were kind of hard to read. Most of the calls I get for orders were for the poor clerk or nurse who couldn't read those orders, and I had to translate Doctor Rushian. I prided myself on keeping my written orders legible. And my scripts for controlled substances were hand written in print to be legible for legal purposes. for non-scheduled medications, I could be a little more lax in the precision. While I have a heavy hand with my writing, It was legible.

Should force doctors to learn how to use computers and send the prescriptions right to the pharmacy (if known) Or at the very least have graph-paper like script pads that say "PRINT JACKASS AND USE THE SQUARES FOR EACH LETTER." heh.

[TitsMcGee]

My handwritting is pretty decent, my brother's on the otherhand is HORRIBLE. Seriously chicken scratch is an understatment.

[jynxxxedangel]

A sample of my own hand-written script (I don't use cursive):

I love T.S. Eliot, if you can't tell.

[pomba gira]

A sample of my own hand-written script (I don't use cursive):

I love T.S. Eliot, if you can't tell.

Grooooovy... very decorative but still pretty easy to read!