#hand-writing

Do you remember learning to write at school? We called it Running Writing, although the official name was Cursive. That distinguished it from what we called Printing, in which you write each letter separately, with no joins between them. Up until some grade – I think about grade 3 – they made us print. Then we started to have sessions of Running Writing practice. We felt SO grown-up! Our…

Life gets in the way. So I’ve only now done day 4 of practice. I think I’m going to give each five hanzi I learn 10 practice days before moving on.

Anyways, so there are three things that make this process difficult for me. One is purely mechanical/physical: I overgrip even with the assistive device & I am wildly out of the habit of writing manually so my whole right arm hates me right now heh. Two is me struggling to unlearn the width/space rules of the English lettering. For the hanzi 一，二，三，五 the width of space they need to be made feels similar enough to what I’m used to. But 四 in the hand-written form is soooo much wider than I am comfortable with that I always feel like I’m doing it wrong and then I over-correct and then realize I’m doing that and try to go the other way. Basically I become a nervous wreck and that exacerbates all my tendency to grip too tightly. 

Which leads me to the third thing. I have a LOT of trauma and stress around writing by hand. Like so much so that part of why there was a gap between days 2 and 3 of practicing this was because I had a fucking school nightmare centered around writing. I have not had school based nightmares in a very, very, very long time.  I didn’t realize how much the physical act of writing was tied to some of my early school year trauma. I considered getting a writing brush and doing that instead of using a pen or pencil since a paintbrush shape is not as trauma-linked and also you hold it differently. I’m not ready to do that yet, but I’m also not ruling it out. 

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