How You Make a Capital Q

Monday, June 23, 2025

Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.

How's the day? O/

Sunshine state of mind feelin' fine?
Getting it done fun in the sun?
Just chillin' out no time to pout?

Be your best you, that's the thing to do.

Welcome back.

Here we go.

On with our show...

Keyboard?

I thought about switching to a keyboard this morning for a change of pace.

The morning words are slow the past week or so.

But slow isn't a bad thing. Slow ought to be encouraged. It's so lacking these days.

The right word here is actually: Fast.

Morning dreams are fast lately, the pen stutters to keep up.

It's quality control, your instrument of choice.

Your writing device is your selectively permeable membrane for bringing your dreams to written words.

It's the feeling the device brings to you that's most important.

Comfort comes first when it comes to choice of a writing device.

Simple simplicity is best.

After you've been at it for sometime, working really working, developed a strong practice; you find it's a matter of choosing the best instrument for the song that wants sung.

A flute concerto played on a tuba is an interesting academic exercise.

Though, even if the tuba player was a virtuoso, the whole dynamic and feel of the song would be completely changed.

It's rare when writing that the tool used to etch the marks changes the quality of the conveyance.

It's rhythm. It's intonation. It's comfort.

The loop of a cursive line holds more of what's personal in its expression than any press of any key. So the personal comes in the journey from dream to page.

How you make a capital Q is a different experience via cursive than via type tap and thumb-slap.

There's a lot to say on this subject. Perhaps I'll put it in an essay.

I know other authors fuss over their writing equipment at least as much as I have my whole life.

Topic to address: The difference on drafts made from handwriting, touch typing and thumb-slapping.

It is measurable the way a poem measures things.

I know that if Shakespeare were to write a sonnet of love on his laptop it would sound different than if he poured it from his fountain pen.

I know that Shakespeare knows it, too.

Take care, write type thumb-slap that essay, choose your most comfortable tools, and make wonderful this wonderful day.