Try it! Take a picture of a page of words you've written. You can zoom in on different letters, and experiment with your different ways of writing (legible, for teachers and homework and informal letter writing and stuff, then script for being fancy, and then your normal jotting, for instance). Think about it-all authors throughout history had their own wonderful signature style. My personal writing, which looks like a secret code (sometimes it's secret even from me) tends to be a scrunchy scrawl because the words go so fast through my head that I have to get them down on paper as quickly as possible. I also have the other options I've mentioned. Anyway, this is just something that interests me.
When I was first learning script (apart from those quirky tries back when I was 10 or so), I searched online and eventually printed off a whole alphabet adapted from Jane Austen's surviving letters. I try to simulate it as much as possible, and it's really entertaining. I wonder if you can find that kind of thing for many other authors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/script
I think that cursive implies a style in which the letters in each word are smoothly connected. Script is a term that can be used widely to refer to any text OR style of writing, including non-connected letters and computer typeset.
Cursive is also called joined-up writing in British English, running writing in Australian English, and many other things. See wiki link above.
You have such lovely cursive! Have you seen the guide to graphology blog? It's pretty cool. Anyway. Sometimes when I'm going back and editing pages, or even in the midst of writing, I circle certain letters or words that strike me as elegant or interesting so I can try to replicate them, which is also pretty fun.
ReplyDeleteYeah! that's fun to do. Sometimes I think of a character when i see a letter! aw, thanks. So do you! we need to start the fine art of letter writing again. i haven't seen the blog yet! off to check.
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