If you go to Japan, check out a place called Tokyu Hands.. tons of paper notebooks, pens, pencils, pencil organizer pouches, tons of awesome stuff..
Japan's Paper Culture
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#12I have no affiliation with jetpens - but if you are into pens at all, buy one of their sampler packs.
It's a great way to try out different styles of pens that you won't find at Staples or Walgreens (or the office supply closet).
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#13Growing up, I had a friend with a Japanese parent. She had supernaturally neat handwriting, produced with various impossibly cute and meticulous-looking Japanese pens and stationary over the years. I felt like some kind of clumsy, nasty barbarian in comparison. Japan is, of course, just a place. The people there are ordinary humans. Fetishizing a particular culture is both cringeworthy and genuinely harmful. Their co…
There are still places here that require you to submit a handwritten resume for that matter
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#14Growing up, I had a friend with a Japanese parent. She had supernaturally neat handwriting, produced with various impossibly cute and meticulous-looking Japanese pens and stationary over the years. I felt like some kind of clumsy, nasty barbarian in comparison. Japan is, of course, just a place. The people there are ordinary humans. Fetishizing a particular culture is both cringeworthy and genuinely harmful. Their co…
> Japan is, of course, just a place.
You allude to this later in your comment, but it really isn't when it comes to paper (and to some extent, cardboard).
The irony in your comment re:fetishizing is that TFA talks of traditions whereas you say things like:
> She had supernaturally neat handwriting
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#15If you go to Japan, check out a place called Tokyu Hands.. tons of paper notebooks, pens, pencils, pencil organizer pouches, tons of awesome stuff..
Tokyu Hands is all over SG too.
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#16Growing up, I had a friend with a Japanese parent. She had supernaturally neat handwriting, produced with various impossibly cute and meticulous-looking Japanese pens and stationary over the years. I felt like some kind of clumsy, nasty barbarian in comparison. Japan is, of course, just a place. The people there are ordinary humans. Fetishizing a particular culture is both cringeworthy and genuinely harmful. Their co…
As a Chinese my friends and I are always amazed by the contemporary Japanese art, music and movies. I attributed the success partially to the democratic system and remain hopeful for our own culture.
Their cultural marketing is also great
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#17I have no affiliation with jetpens - but if you are into pens at all, buy one of their sampler packs. It's a great way to try out different styles of pens that you won't find at Staples or Walgreens (or the office supply closet).
I also have no affiliation with jetpens, but they're an incredible little company. They also do a TON of writing like the article linked.
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#18If you go to Japan, check out a place called Tokyu Hands.. tons of paper notebooks, pens, pencils, pencil organizer pouches, tons of awesome stuff..
Also Ito-Ya
https://www.ito-ya.co.jp/lang/en/index.html
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#19I often want to reteach myself handwriting to be able to write like this. Has anyone here had success in doing this? How did you go about it?
Look for penmanship manuals, there are many out there online. They will be full of instructions and exercises. Calligraphy manuals may be interesting too but that is somewhat more decorative.
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#20Growing up, I had a friend with a Japanese parent. She had supernaturally neat handwriting, produced with various impossibly cute and meticulous-looking Japanese pens and stationary over the years. I felt like some kind of clumsy, nasty barbarian in comparison. Japan is, of course, just a place. The people there are ordinary humans. Fetishizing a particular culture is both cringeworthy and genuinely harmful. Their co…
There are still places here that require you to submit a handwritten resume for that matter
I wonder if there are resume ghostwriters you can hire for that?
I imagine you'd send them the text and a sample of your handwriting, and they'd produce a neatened up version that's close enough to your handwriting that someone could believe you'd produced it with enough care.
(Cheaper versions would just give you a generic neat hand, without customising it to your own handwriting.)