“To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth…”
Mark Twain
A recent image of Taylor Swift has revealed that despite her many high achievements she doesn’t know how to hold a pen. How people hold pens is of particular interest to fountain pen aficionados. Lend one of your precious models to a stranger with the wrong sort of grip and disaster is moments away. Most humans seriously begin the process of holding writing tools, usually a crayon or chalk, around the age of three years. The whole of the palm is generally employed at first and this is referred to by experts, such as Paediatric Occupational Therapists, as a Primitive Grip. By the start of formal schooling or soon after, most of us have naturally developed or been taught a so-called Mature Grip. There are four academically accepted mature writing grips, which are illustrated above. Peer reviewed published scientific research has shown that all are equivalent in speed, legibility, fatigue rates and required pressure of stroke. Unfortunately, Taylor uses none of these. Experts describe her’s as a modified grip, typically employed by those with joint hyper-mobility syndromes. This information has only fired up the internet even more. #atleastsheisntaleftyoverhooker #letsmakelemonade
Pen Paint and Scalpel 