¿Aún escribo a mano? [Llamado a la acción] (ESP/ENG)

Escribir es una de las cosas que más me gusta hacer en la vida, de hecho, escribo historias, cuentos y relatos desde los 13 años, realmente me inicié escribiendo una reseña de todo lo que yo había investigado entonces sobre el naufragio del Titanic (sin que me lo pidiera ningún profesor), ya que me había quedado una gran fascinación por ese trasatlántico luego del estreno de la película del 97 que lo hizo aún más famoso. Pero ya desde la primaria nos incentivaban a escribir mucho (claro, crecí en los 90) y en primer año de secundaria recuerdo que hasta nos motivaban a escribir siguiendo el método Palmer, el cuál es un método de escritura continua siguen algunos movimientos musculares que ayudan a definir los trazos, también te ayuda a posicionar la mano de tal manera que cause la menor fatiga posible (algo que confieso no practiqué mucho y eso me ha pasado factura 😩) Pero sí, a lo largo de los años he continuado escribiendo a mano, me encanta hacerlo, tratar de mejorar mi caligrafía, por años intenté imitar la de mi papá que es preciosa, pero no pude.

Writing is one of the things I love to do most in life. In fact, I've been writing stories, tales, and narratives since I was 13. I actually started by writing a review of everything I had researched at the time about the sinking of the Titanic (without any teacher asking me to), since I had become very fascinated by that ocean liner after the premiere of the 1997 film that made it even more famous. But even in elementary school they encouraged us to write a lot (of course, I grew up in the 90s) and in the first year of high school I remember that they even motivated us to write using the Palmer method, which is a continuous writing method that follows certain muscle movements that help define the strokes, it also helps you position your hand in such a way that it causes the least possible fatigue (something that I confess I didn't practice much and that has taken its toll 😩). But yes, over the years I have continued to write by hand, I love doing it, trying to improve my handwriting, for years I tried to imitate my dad's, which is beautiful, but I couldn't.

I'm always taking notes on something. I remember when I wrote my novel, The Rose of Auschwitz, I had to do a tremendous amount of research—a huge amount—about everything related to World War II, the Holocaust, concentration camps, Judaism, and so on. I wanted to have it all in handwritten form to preserve a tangible memory of that time. But I didn't just write down my research notes; I also wrote down the names of my characters and sketched out scenes, which I later refined when writing the chapters in a Word document on my computer. I don't know, paper and ink inspire me, fill me with life, and connect me to the stories I want to tell. I don't always write by hand, but when an idea suddenly strikes me, I don't hesitate. I grab some paper and a pen and let it all flow.

I haven't kept a diary since my teens, but reading all the notes I have from the novels I've written sometimes inspires me to write new stories. I also like to jot down ideas and develop them for my YouTube channels or my posts on Hive; I feel more involved that way. And I won't deny it, sometimes I've written so much that it hurts my right hand, so it wouldn't hurt to learn to write with my left hand. That's a great advantage of being ambidextrous, and of course, it wouldn't be a bad idea to learn that new skill for the coming year, would it?

Thank you so much for reading my post! I was inspired to write it after watching @palabras1's video and their call to action. So, I'd like to invite my dad, @victor2356, who loves to write and I always see him making notes in notebooks; my sister, @bethyjade, who also has this lovely habit and even has beautiful notebooks decorated for this purpose; my mom, @carmen1659; and my friend, @eugemaradona 🤗, to join in and share their experiences with handwriting.

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