DP Daily Prompts: Pens and Pencils
When was the last time you wrote something substantive–a letter, a story, a journal entry, etc.—by hand? Could you ever imagine to a pre–keyboard era?
Last time I used to write with my pen was yesterday, it so happens my brother is writing a book, after completing the first chapter he sent it to me to read and write my comments.
When I finished reading it the first time, I could not recall what I read, how will I comment on something I could not remember.
When I was in college I was unable to concentrate, I tried to remedy the situation, by reading it two three times, I realized when I was reading something my focus was on something else, this was terrible,I told myself maybe if I write it down I’ll do better, see when I write I have to focus or else I won’t be able to write correctly.
So when brother dear gave me the task of reading and commenting,I knew I had to write it down first, then read what I wrote, sure enough I was able to comment on the chapter.
Writing by hand is great I get to practice my writing, make sure the i’s are dotted and t’s are crossed and m does not look like w and vice versa.
You might be amazed to know it took me two hours to write six pages both sides, my writing looked better as I continued writing. I don’t need spell check because I learned to spell correctly in school, thanks to the nuns who taught me!
So dear brother if you’d care to know I spent two hours writing your chapter one and then wrote my comment. 🙂
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Dear Ranu,
Thank you for this nice post about your writing and your brother.
All good wishes,
robert
Thank you Robert.
Thank you very much dear sister, for sharing this. I’m amused (and amazed) to see that I also have the same habit since school days: focusing on complex texts by copying them first :). Six pages both sides, and two hours, is lots of hard work! So, thanks for that too.
It wasn’t too bad I improved my handwriting which is a plus.
Thank you for your comment.
We look forward to seeing the fruits of your hard work. I basically have terrible handwriting now. My daughters were amazed to find my handwritten notes from college, how neat and twirly my writing was!
I know Sonya in college we knew the teacher will have something to say about our writing.
Now it’s up to us to keep our handwriting looking good.