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Paragraphs of the Week - #7

Previous week.

Welcome to another week! As you can see, I made some changes to the subreddit appearance:

  • Header is different
  • Request flairs are now orange
  • Plain old orange border around sidebar
  • Submission buttons are changed

Thanks to u/professor_rumbleroar for helping this week, who suggested the first paragraph. If you wish to submit your own paragraphs/sentences, please message me :)

The Paragraphs!

  1. "All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh! why can't you remain like this forever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end." - Peter Pan

  2. "Oh, America. I wish I could tell you that this was still America, but I've come to realize that you can't have a country without people. And there are no people here. No, my friends. This is now the United States of Zombieland." - Columbus, Zombieland

  3. "When Sunday came, and it was time for the girl to start, a feeling of dread came over her which she could not explain, and that she might be able to find her path again, she filled her pockets with peas and lentils to sprinkle on the ground as she went along." - The Robber Bridegroom

  4. "The enchantress was so hard-hearted that she banished the poor girl to a wilderness, where she had to live in a miserable, wretched state." - Rapunzel

  5. "We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

Good luck!

Posted Jun 9, 2014, 12:33 AM UTC · edited

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professor_rumbleroar•

http://i.imgur.com/mImGyWI.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ondgC5j.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xhw0wBM.jpg I've been subscribed to handwriting for quite a while now, but never knew there was "paragraphs of the week" until last week. I was excited for it because I really like the first paragraph of Peter Pan and write it all. the. time. If I'm bored anywhere and I have a pen and paper, that's the first thing I will write. So I suggested it for this week! Even though I write it frequently, it doesn't look great this week; I was in class while I was writing it and kept having to stop to listen better and such. Here are the pens I used for each of them in the order they are listed in the OP:

  1. Acroball (fine) by Pilot
  2. EnerGel (.07) by Pentel
  3. Sharpie Pen (fine)
  4. Zebra v.301 (fine)
  5. #2 mechanical pencil
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Eggplantsauce•

My favorite feel is mechanical pencil :3

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professor_rumbleroar•

I think I'd like it better with just one sheet of paper on a table, but I keep doing it in the notebook, so the papers behind it make it too soft and hard to make it dark enough to read.

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Eggplantsauce•

I meant when I'm writing, sorry

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professor_rumbleroar•

That's what I meant too :]

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Eggplantsauce•

1. - Suetterlin

2. and 3. - Print then cursive, both fast

4. - Suetterlin

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far_shooter•

great neck exercise.

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Eggplantsauce•

Sorry I don't know how to turn them.

But if you scroll your mouse, it zooms in.

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far_shooter•

Wolala, the thinnest pen I got

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PotatoBag•

1 - Recently picked up cursive again when I got my first fountain pen after many years of not writing cursive. Also subbed to this sub about a week or so ago because I wanted to improve my handwriting. Anyone has some tips on making it more leggible and/or neat?

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Eggplantsauce•

Why do you write your p's like that? What country are you from?

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PotatoBag•

I'm Dutch. I've been taught to write the p like this. Our t also differs from the t I see others write.

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Eggplantsauce•

In Suetterlin t's are like that, also the L's and z's are different.

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PotatoBag•

Ah yeah, I forgot about the Z. The L differs too, but not as much in my opinion. I think the pic I linked to is a bit outdated since we don't dot our y (anymore?).

I've been taught to write the t like people normally do now, but the one on that picture I linked is just so much easier when writing quickly.

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illusionofsanity•

I should really write more. Here is my attempt at Paragraph of the Week #7:

  1. Peter Pan
  2. Zombie Groom
  3. Waltenpunzel

I even tried "print", but it seems letters go missing when I do that.

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[deleted]•

Writting on my lap so it looks terrible but here you go with that italic nib i promised a while ago (please please ignoere the non italic one, it is shameful)

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William woodsworth manuscript paperblancs notebook I actually picked this up for the design. I personally think Daffodils is one of the best peices of English literature so as soon as I saw this beauty I had to buy it.

Pens and inks used (not in order) lamy al-star with 1.5mm italic, sheaffer red viewpoint 1.0mm italic, orange one 2.0 mm and finally a Faber-Castell loom.

Edit: decided to have a go at writting Daffodils too http://imgur.com/a/nE4PS this time in my desk. I can't take pics as my battery is about to run out but it was writtwn with a Parker premium urban matte black which you can see on the back of the pens and inks pic and waterman Florida Blue (now known as serenity blue)

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StarWalkOP•

Looks like you have quite the setup! Haha

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