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My entry in the World Handwriting Contest

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After some teasing from coworkers and some prodding from jcobleigh, I decided to submit an entry to the World Handwriting Contest. The website looks a bit amateur, but the contest is the real deal: it's the only worldwide handwriting contest. I learned about it from reading Script & Scribble by Kitty Burns Florey (it's a wonderful book)!

After 9 months of experimenting with different styles, layouts, pens, paper, and cunning misspellings of various words, here's my final entry:



It's far from perfect, but I decided to cut myself off and just send something in.


18 July 2010 update: I won first place in my category!

Posted on May. 30th, 2010 at 07:58 pm | | Leave a comment | 8 comments |

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metahacker

Very cool. Have you ever thought of doing calligraphy? I have a bunch of friends into that...always looked interesting.
Posted on May. 31st, 2010 02:40 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

reveilles

Yes, I toyed with it in high school, briefly. Maybe I'll take it up again someday. At the moment, I'm valuing the pragmatic everyday sort of handwriting more. :)
Posted on May. 31st, 2010 02:44 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

silly_lilly

what do you win?
recognition?
Posted on Jul. 19th, 2010 12:58 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

reveilles

Yeah, a hand-lettered certificate by a professional calligrapher and bragging rights. :)
Posted on Jul. 19th, 2010 01:27 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

silly_lilly

bragging rights are good

shouldn't you scan said letter and post here?
Posted on Jul. 19th, 2010 03:35 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

reveilles

The woman who runs the contest called me to let me know I’d won, but she said that I wouldn’t get the official certificate until some time in September. (I guess it takes the calligrapher some time to manually create all the certificates. :)
Posted on Jul. 21st, 2010 12:31 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

silly_lilly

hehe
joys of a writing contest

i hope they use good paper
Posted on Jul. 22nd, 2010 04:45 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

(Anonymous)

very good

Very similar.
Posted on Jul. 17th, 2011 02:47 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply