Craft note: Hand written using my newest pen given to me by my eldest daughter on the occasion of my 61st birthday. Super fine tip, smooth action on contact, delightful fantasy figure cap. Wishing you all a year of unicorns and rainbows.
Writing Bites
by Susanne Fletcher
Writing Bites 
Ohh, this is quite excellent. Would be great for the first poem in a collection. I’d need a transcript to be sure of a few words, but this makes it even better. We read what we want.
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My friend gives me handmade book journals, and I dream of she and I making handmade books, but my writing is notoriously terrible. You could do it, though. Lovely writing and words and “old flame” illustration.
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I need to look up hand made book journals. What a lovely idea! When I was at a small press book fair in the spring, I met a women who hand made & illustrated her book on the migration of monarch butterflies. It unfolded into a long skinny piece of art. Now I’m sorry I didn’t buy one!
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Another good writing. You never disappoint. And may I say, I cannot believe you have such a tidy lil writey book?!? You’re livin the dream. Mine look like — not like that. LOL My mother would be proud to call you hers 😉
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That page is all tidy but if I flipped to the previous page it would be all messy with scratched out stuff, arrows, different words. Oh yes, me and my book are livin’ the dream. So funny, Joey. Your comments always lift me up!
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Oh, I am relieved to know this tidiness is not constant 🙂 Haha, sorry! And, Thanks 🙂
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A wonderfully wistful birthday poems Susanne, in lovely calligraphy! Happy Birthday 🙂
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Wistful. That’s a good word, too! Thank you, Andrea.
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When I see beautiful handwriting like this it makes me sad that schools no longer teach cursive. Every person’s handwriting is so expressive!
… and it’s a lovely poem!
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Thanks, Joanne.
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Ah, to write legibly…you do it beautifully, Susanne. It matches your poetry…fantastic. And a belated Happy Birthday to you too ❤
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Thank you, Donna.
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That’s a very sensual set of images in the poem–quite in keeping with the hand writing; the poem wouldn’t have anywhere near the same effect if typed. I used to love my writing by hand but it’s as if my hands just don’t cooperate anymore. too creaky . . .
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Last year I traveled a lot for work and one of the last places I went was Banff, Alberta, in the Rockies. The setting is absolutely stunning and the view from my hotel window was the most beautiful scene. I don’t know why my mind veered towards the erotic when I was remembering it. At the time I was thrilled to have a big bed all to myself without my darling but restless, snoring spouse!
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Congratulations on preserving your copper plate rs – most of us lose bits of them
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Of course I had to look up “copper plate r’s” and get myself educated. I did not know my r’s were so worthy.
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🙂 Well, they are
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Lovely handwriting.
Most times I try to read something I’ve written it’s illegible ☹️
And a nice poem too
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My husband, who was an English teacher, used to hand write illegible comments to his students which always caused them to come and talk to him to decipher what he’d said. I don’t think this was calculated but it probably helped them enormously to get both written and verbal commentary.
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An unintended consequence, although also a good excuse!
I think that due to the dominance of electronic communication people (and not just young ones) have become unused to writing by hand. I see this during the teaching and training work I do. Handwriting has, no doubt, suffered. But I haven’t that excuse. No personal computers when I was at school and University but my handwriting has always been dreadful!
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Susanne, happy birthday! A lovely gift from your daugher and wonderful handwriting! Mine changes every few lines like the language or dialect and cuisne change every km in the country of my birth!! And Banff! I love, love, love the town! We were there in the spring of 2014 and I have happy memories of it. Wishing you a fabulous year ahead.
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I would go back to Banff in half a heart beat. It was a short but memorable work trip and I stayed in the most glorious hotel I’ve ever been in and as a former meeting planner I’ve been in some swanky joints. When I went for a walk in the early morning, there was a caribou grazing in a field that sometimes doubles as the hotel parking lot. Amazing.
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Wonderful pen-woman-ship!!! I, too, am addicted to pens and the feeling of it across paper. I’m partial to fountain pens. Particularly one I got from Levenger …it doesn’t have a unicorn or a rainbow on it. But I’ve drawn mythological fantastical things with it. In my mind that counts. Lol! Happy rainbows and unicorn pen days to you!
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I also have fountain pens, though not expensive or fancy ones. The nicest is a Lamy and I’m super careful with it because I’m prone to losing things I like.
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I hear you! My precious fountain pen has one spot – and one spot only – on my drawing desk. And that’s the only place where I use it. I’d hate to walk about with it and lay it down somewhere….
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What penmanship you have, and what sensual words, and then sleep….a 60 somethings dream, lol. Happy belated birthday.
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Nothing beats writing with a fine pen. That this is a unicorn pen makes me mighty jealous indeed. Your words are beautifully sculpted. I wish you many unicorn-pen moments ahead 🦄 ✍️
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It is a Japanese made pen. I wish I could read the brand name because I’d buy a crateful and send them to all those who long for unicorns in their lives.
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Is there anyone who doesn’t in truth long for Unicorns. Only the truly lost, I think ….
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How nice it must be to have handwriting one can not only read but be proud of. ( Yet another danged modifier. My high school English teachers are all rolling over–in unison–in their graves.)
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I find writing by hand relaxing. Maybe because I spend 5 days week/8 hours a day in front of a screen blah, blah, blahing that my brain and hands need a different way to draft.
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