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Fake handwriting as meditative practice

May 15, 2021

Remember fake cursive?

Fake cursive with highlighters

Who remembers fake handwriting? 

As a youngster, I would sit in the office at our stable and compose fancy cursive business letters to tack and feed companies. I wrote and asked for free samples of horse treats, brushes, or any paper advertising materials printed with pictures of horses.

What showed up on the page however, were indecipherable scribbles.

Recently, Lynda Barry (@thenearsightedmonkey) posted about how she used to do fake handwriting and she revisited the practice with ball point pen on a compbook page. She calls the movement of a pen on the paper as “finger skating.” She inspired me to try my hand with it this morning.

It was difficult to NOT form actual words. The first couple of index cards I struggled to make the loops and whorls be nonsense. After more attempts, it was easier to clear my mind and let the scribbles skate across the card.

Fake cursive

As Lynda writes, “It was unexpectedly good to do this.”

I agree.

Fake handwriting as meditative practice

Filed Under: Art Projects Tagged With: creative life, creativity exercises, ICAD, the 100 day project

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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