Do you think writing by hand is a good old thing of past?

Yeah, I think that writing is slowly pacing out. Of course we would prefer using technology on writing formal stuff like writing business letters and researches. However, handwritten notes or friendly letters is really more personal rather than a typewritten one. It makes the recipient of the letter feel that it entailed the writer a lot of hardwork in writing the letter.

My boyfriend 4 years ago who happens to be my husband now, sent me a type-written letter. Oh it was romantic and all but there was something lacking about it. So I wrote him in my response to his letter that I'd like to read a letter in his own penmanship. As for me, I want to receive a love-letter that is hand-written... it's kind of more personal and it's like all the effort is there. I don't care about erasures and wrong spellings. Even with this very fast-paced technology that we are in, I still love to receive snail mail letters. I do write letters myself and they're always hand-written. My classmates back in high school and university had always taken a closer look of my penmanship...they said it was very neat and uniform.

I carry a notebook with me to make notes, phone numbers, websites and an occasional journal entry when I'm out. Since I'm standing or more often on a bus or light rail, the writing is not very good. But it suffices for its purpose. I haven't received anything in quite a while to write a thank you note. I wonder if I could still do that special writing I did with formal writing...

It's kinda funny I just found this discussion just a little bit ago I mentioned on another discussion that I've been taking pen and notebook to work with me and on my lunch break am doing some writing, by hand (articles, stories, and such).

Ever so often I'll get the urge to just take out a pad of paper and write. What do I write about well nothing with substance, rather to just write for the fun of it. It takes longer so your thoughts have a longer time to stew and change (just as if you had the backspace present as you do on your computer). I don't know why but I have a sense of satisfaction if after writing I see many scuffed words. It shows how hard i worked and reworked the writing. You see more of your words articulated and how that one sentence came to be. The one line that you crossed out may give way to inspire another piece of writing with that line in it. With paper it will always be there with a computer a simple backspace deletes it forever. I think with time writing will only be used in the form of signatures much as it is now. As depressing as it is that's the downside to all this advanced technology. With our generation that need and know how of how great it feels to write stuff down will soon be lost with the younger generations. I am by no means old but I am old enough to remember when computers were first introduced. I think it will be a lost art many moons down the road. For every poem I write online I am always sure to write it down into my poetry book so I have a hard copy (that isn't printed) rather hand written to show it's value to me :). I think it shows care if you take the time to write stuff now a days. My husband and I both wrote out our discussion questions for pre marriage counseling. Our Reverend commented on it and said it gave the words that personal touch.