Name: Write now
ISBN: 9780876781180

Write now

It's so natural and easy to have better handwriting. WRITE NOW is a self-instructional course in modern italic handwriting, containing everything you need to improve the legibility, ease and look of your handwriting -- a complete workbook for adults and professionals. This popular book in the United States is now available internationally with this new edition. Improve the legibility, ease and look of your handwriting with this complete workbook for adults and professionals. Learn a fast, efficient and practical handwriting style that eliminates the loops and flourishes of conventional cursive. Italic is a modern handwriting system based on Italian Renaissance letterforms that are highly suited to rapid and legible writing, where rhythmic patterns follow the natural movement of the hand. Italic's handsome letters are as easy to write as they are to read. Send handwritten notes you can be proud of. Friends and business associates will appreciate receiving legible and distinctive handwritten messages. Poor handwriting isn't your fault. The looped cursive handwriting most of us were taught was simply not designed to accomplish the necessary combination of legibility, speed, and ease. WRITE NOW is a self-instructional course in modern italic handwriting. A complete program for adults. Contains instructions, practice exercises and tips. The new edition includes a supplementary section with a complete review of basic and cursive italic.

What Hacker News says

cratermoonJul 2026

I think tablet handwriting is fine. I had some six weeks of down time a while back and took advantage of it to go through the Getty-Dubay book Write Now: the Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success to improve my handwriting legibility. There's a website now https://handwritingsuccess.com/ and for your purposes even more relevant, there's a mobile app. I'm not affiliated, in case you're wondering.

As for disorganization, that's kind of the nature of early notes. There are ways to kind of organize them. One technique I use is writing them on notecards or notecard-sized paper, which I can later shuffle and organize.

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cratermoonOct 2021

Oh, but everything I know about learning mathematics tells me that doing problems, on paper, is key. That means writing them out. I'm sorry you think you're not a good hand writer, may I recommend Write Now: The Getty‑Dubay Program for Handwriting? You're probably not bad at it, but could use a little refinement. It really helped me improve and speed up my handwriting.

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krrrhMay 2021

Drop loop cursive and get the book Write Now which teaches Getty-Dubay italic to adults.

https://handwritingsuccess.com/

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krrrhNov 2020

I had band handwriting and spent some time with Write Now! which is a book teaching the Getty-Dubay italics method to adults. It helped quite a bit, but I’ve been meaning to revisit it and I think it would be great to pull PDFs into something like ReMarkable for practice.

https://handwritingsuccess.com/

Edit: looks like they have released an iPad app since I last tried it! I’ll also add that when I first did it I found doing the worksheets pretty relaxing as a wind down exercise, in the same way that mindlessly playing puzzle games on a phone would be, but with much more benefit.

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cratermoonSep 2020

If you're seriously motivated to improve your longhand, get a copy of Write Now: The Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success and go through the exercise. My handwriting wasn't awful as a whole but certain letters and letter combinations were disastrously unreadable. I also wasn't fast enough. Whatever you learned in school was probably not optimized for legibility AND speed together.

https://handwritingsuccess.com/write-now/

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hudibrasNov 2017

I used this book (I see that it's now out-of-print, though) to improve my handwriting by using italic. You can see some examples inside the book.

https://www.amazon.com/Write-Now-Complete-Program-Handwritin...

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