The Lazy Procrastinator

I’ve never liked the way my handwriting looked, except on a few occasions when I would find a perfectly sharpened pencil, but never with a pen.  Often my penmanship would look large and bulky and I’ve even tried different lettering such as block lettering that my father does.  But unfortunately, nothing seemed to fit me.  Today I discovered a new way to write and so far I’m liking it, but it will take some getting use to, to kill old habits.  So far this only works with a gel pen since it requires me to write lightly and not bully the pen to the paper.  Before I use to hold the pen tightly near the business end with my middle finger close to the tip, but now I have decided to write with a light grip around the top portion of the pen with my index and middle finger rested casually in the middle.  This small change has changed my handwriting from large and bulky to small and Book Antiqua-like.

Also, I’ve decided to stop typing my short stories.  Instead, I will write them by hand and then transcribe them onto a computer whenever they are finished. Typing has become too efficient and worst of all, convenient.  Efficiency often focuses on quantity and not quality, while convenience often leads to complacency.  Mix these two together and you quickly welcome yourself  to ruining anything that could be beautiful.   I want to take the time to perfect the art in order to create something unique and timeless and not be tempted by the likes of the modern assembly line.