On Monday I wrote 4 essays in 2 hours… I got it done but my hand was pretty much broken after it. I think constantly writing hurts your hands anyway but… I feel like it hurt more than it did during high school when I was used to writing essays most days. I rarely write by hand for extended periods of time anyway. I can’t imagine writing my stories like that. I am super grateful for keyboards! What about you? Is it an effort to write by hand?
– Ermisenda
Ermilia 
It is an effort, but somehow there’s something fascinating about holding a neatly penned document, which I just don’t get with printed sheets.
So true. There is so much satisfaction in penned documents but… my hand doesn’t like it! š
Handwriting can hurt! No doubt about it! But excessive keyboard use can be bad too. I remember my fingers aching after I was finished with my thesis.
I really don’t look forward to writing my thesis at the end of this year. š¦
Perhaps if it included the pain of handwriting…
Yes, especially since I have lousy handwriting. It takes effort to make it legible. I do like to send handwritten letters to people every so often, just because though š
That’s really nice. Hand written letters are so lovely. There is something so romantic and sentimental about penned documents. But I also have to make an effort to make my writing legible. š Typing is so easy, I can just choose the font and it’s always legible and beautiful!
On a good day, when the literary muse is in full flow, I can manage around 5000 words on the keyboard, and I can read it without having to ask my wife for help. Such, sadly, is not the case with handwriting. For me, there’s no contest. It never was a pleasure to view with a rueful countenance the splurges and spatters that passed for neat, legible writing. I do handwrite – shopping lists, for example, and it’s amazing the stuff I come back with that I never knew I needed. As for the romance of the pen, it lacks a certain something if the message cannot be deciphered.
This is one of my great fears! I want to be published, but what if they ever asked me to do a book signing?
Very true. If you can’t read it, what’s the point? I also find it much easier to edit typed work.
I used to nock a pen against a callus that’s no longer there.
I’ve recently tried to fill in the blank: Writers’ ___. I didn’t think of “bump”!
I reserve that for when I’m gravid with a book.
Ugh, calluses. I don’t miss them.
I just recently wrote about a fountain pen and wondered if I had just killed three or four of my readers who walked into traffic trying to Google it on their phones. If I wrote an essay in two hours, I would be the only one who could read it.
Haha yeah I feel terrible for the markers. But normally they say if they can’t read it then they can’t award you marks so you need to make your writing legible for your own sake.