Man of letters (Week 41)
"We produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery." Putting pen to paper, as Charles Dickens explained so well in Great Expectations , is a comfortable activity. The second you make contact with the paper, you feel a soulful journey beginning. And so, for a week, I did just that, but in a fancy way. Since I already know how to write, I decided to try my hand at something a little more elevated and challenging. Hello, calligraphy! The first thing I learned while exploring the countless YouTube videos available on the subject, is that calligraphy is not handwriting. It is lettering. Rather than attempt to connect all your letters with a continuous line, the goal is to give each letter its own character, and that means frequently lifting your pen off the paper and moving to your next starting point. The next thing I learned was about upstroke...