{"id":6371,"date":"2021-12-03T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2021-12-03T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:35:07","slug":"mary-ruefles-wrist-moving-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/mary-ruefles-wrist-moving-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ruefle&#8217;s Wrist-moving action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I write by hand because that is how I began, and I love it. Moving the wrist, the marks the pencil or pen leave on the paper\u2014like the trail of a snail\u2014well, it is like drawing, no, it is drawing, and I am so enamoured of this activity that sometimes I write continuously without actually forming real words, I call it \u2018fake handwriting,\u2019 and it\u2019s just as much fun as actually \u2018writing\u2019. By fun I mean it\u2019s just as much a mystery. The whole wrist-moving action is why I write in the first place. I don\u2019t like tennis, or knitting, I like writing with my hands.<\/p><cite>Mary Ruefle<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masoncurrey.substack.com\/p\/mary-ruefle-does-not-own-a-computer\">Mary Ruefle does not own a computer.<\/a> She weird by hand because she likes how it feels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love reading this because I feel the same way. I take notes by hand and collect notebooks and pens not because I am working on great novels or essays. But because I like pens and paper and how they feel in and under my hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write by hand because that is how I began, and I love it. Moving the wrist, the marks the pencil or pen leave on the paper\u2014like the trail of a snail\u2014well, it is like drawing, no, it is drawing, and I am so enamoured of this activity that sometimes I write continuously without actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[813,1494,462,461,125,140],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared","tag-handwritten","tag-mary-ruefle","tag-paper","tag-pen","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}