Essay

What’s the Use of Handwriting?

An anachronism?

Michelle Scorziello
The Howling Owl
Published in
4 min readJan 11, 2023

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Photo of author’s handwriting using a Kaweco Sport fountain pen with Ruby Red cartridges. Copied excerpt from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

Poor Justin Donlan. He wrote an article about ink pens and showed a photo of his penmanship and all I could do was exclaim at his handwriting which consisted entirely of print. My God, I thought, the work involved lifting the pen on and off the page as each new capital letter is formed!

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Michelle Scorziello
The Howling Owl

I am a special needs teacher who loves to read and write.