Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting
by Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay
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Author: Barbara Getty, Inga DubayBrand: Fahrney's Exclusive
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03
ISBN: 0876781180
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Portland State Univ Continuing
Product features:
- Best book we've found to help improve your handwriting
- Simple lessons to learn the italic style of hand-writing
- Hand-lettered text shows basic, cursive and edged-pen italic
- Make your messages and writings stand out from the ordinary
- Paperback; 96 pages; Companion DVD also available
Book Reviews of Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting
Book Review: I (!) wrote that ?!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book really turned my handwriting around.
I've been plagued by poor handwriting all my life, and though I've practiced and drilled my cursive for years, nothing seemed to make it legible. I would *often* have to re-write short one-sentence notes on PostIts several times so that they could be read. Without word processing, I would be almost completely a verbal-communication-only person. But personally and professionally, my handwriting needs to be legible, so I went looking for a solution, and, in large part based on the reviews in Amazon, got this book.
When I got the book, I worked on it for a couple of hours and saw improvement so rapid and noticeable, I charged on through most of the drills in the book in six days. The constant improvement was so noticeable, I was highly motivated to push through. I am still practicing on speed, and some of the more uncommon changes between letters, but I am more, far more, than satisfied with the result. And, yes, people can read my writing.
Here are what I think are some of the key points I found helpful --
1. The authors point out that the style of writing most of us learned in grade school (with lots of loops, with a capital "Q" that looks like a "2" etc.) was NOT designed for handwriting -- it was designed for engraving. The style of writing taught in this book removes the excess loops and squiggles and reduces the strokes to a near minimum. Note, however, that the style being taught is not new--it has been used for centuries (both my parents used it in their many handwritten letters).
2. In some cases, where transitions between letters might be difficult (like following a "w" with an "e") the book often give different ways to do it. For me, the worst of the worst of my problems in writing was how to get from an "r" to another letter without making the "r" look like something else. Among the solutions the authors offer to this particular problem was this (which I chose): lift your pen off after the "r" and start the next letter. How simple! And it works! (with respect to my harried writing teachers of long ago, I don't recall that this was ever given as an option, or that there were options).
3. The book is meant to be written in (the authors tell you so) and there are pages of drills, including many paragraphs of sample to practice mimicing as you practice. There are also specially lined pages for use in practice that the authors give permission to copy for your practicing, which helped, as the needs of my drilling went well beyond the available pages in the book.
4. There was a paragraph written in the style at the beginning of the book, and I could see how simple, readable, and beautiful it was. I could see immediately that it was an attainable goal.
Grand job, Ms. Getty and Ms. Dubay.
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