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> and writes delightfully If you're right handed. Fountain pens simply don't work for lefties, without writing in a completely unnatural way.
by RandallBrown 7y ago
> and writes delightfully
If you're right handed.
Fountain pens simply don't work for lefties, without writing in a completely unnatural way.
- greggyb 7y agoI must write in a completely unnatural way, then. My hand is always completely below the current line of text. Which hand is writing simply cannot affect whether my hand touches just-written ink. Edit: Just wrote some test lines, forward and backward. My whole hand is multiple lines down in the notebook. Writing in a way so as to get my pen-hand on the same line I'm writing feels incredibly weird to me. I think it just goes to show that whatever you get used to feels natural.
- RandallBrown 7y agoYou're lucky. Me, and every leftie I know, grew up dealing with this in school. http://i.imgur.com/kTT6O.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kTT6O.jpg
- greggyb 7y agoLuck seems a poor thing to attribute this to. I used to smudge all the time as a righty. I have taken time to adjust habits in day-to-day activities. Luck seems to apply only insofar as I do not am neurally and physically typical enough that I can adjust these habits. If you don't like something, especially if it's your own behavior (and writing style is absolutely a behavior), it is likely within your power to change it. Maybe you would need help from a coach or perhaps pharmacological or therapeutic if there is some pathology. For me, it is always a no-brainer to change things that annoy me.
- probably_wrong 7y agoIn case you missed it, there was a thread here yesterday about pen grip with a sub-discussion regarding left-handed writing and fountain pens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22287679