All of us go through our lives doing some form of Handwriting when the need arises— to jot down a note, render our Signature, record some information, or socialize— even briefly— through handwritten communication. And in doing so, we become used to the common standards of writing with a dark ink on a light-colored paper surface, and capitalizing proper nouns, titles, and the beginning words of sentences. These practices are completely useful, but Cursive Handwriting can be much more interesting and fun than such everyday, pedestrian applications. However— this Journey will be different!

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Come and join us in this unique program to discover the Artistic and Creative side of Cursive Handwriting where we will learn how to let our Handwriting really speak for us and be our personal voice. Although we will begin by reviewing those traditional, basic rules of Cursive Penmanship: the letterforms, letter slant, letter angle, and standard capitalization, we will focus our attention on the artistic techniques of Creative Capitalization and Layout, as well as Expressive Composition that can bring a new sense of visual interest to both yourself and the reader. We will delve into the lost art of Novelty Writing Styles, including Composition Writing, Connected Writing, Rainbow Writing, Landscape Writing, Relay Writing, Backwards Writing 1 and 2, Puzzle Writing, Baseline Writing, Running Writing, and Layout Writing.

Unlike the era of Vintage Handwriting prior to the introduction of typewriters, our goals will not be to write as quickly as possible, but instead, to write at your own comfortable speed so that the activity of Handwriting is fun, expressive, very personal, and creative. This is something that we all can do: no special skills are required!