Write Now: The Getty-Dubay Program for Handwriting Success

by Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay

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. "It's a breakthrough at last!" -- Betty Edwards, PhD, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain "When one consciously chooses to communicate, this remarkable script forces the writer to think more clearly, fostering greater mental discipline and organization. Italic handwriting is legible and handsome - I find it soul-satisfying. I recommend Write Now - the book to use. Long live legibility!" -- Paul O. Jacobs, M.D. "Write Now by Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay is the best book on italic handwriting -- or any handwriting -- I've come across. Handsomely handwritten, wondrously clear, easy to use, and even witty, WRITE NOW is the perfect resource for anyone who wants to learn Italic or (as I did) improve a deteriorated script." -- Kitty Burns Florey, author Script & The Rise and Fall Of Handwriting "The hospital staff calls it a miracle. I can now communicate my ideas to other physicians. My wife tells me she can read my love letters. All of this accomplished by improving the legibility of my handwriting with Getty-Dubay." -- Stephen Caplan, MD International edition 101 pages.

Genres: Nonfiction, Writing, Reference

102 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 1991

Reviews

[Karen Witzler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Based upon Wilfrid Jasper Blunt's version of the Chancery hand, this is having a popular revival among American homeschoolers as Getty-Dubay Italic or Italic Cursive handwriting.

[Fernando Fernandes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice one! The book is super easy to follow with some nice calligraphy history snippets here and there. But I'm not doing that Cursive Italic variation tho. 😅 That's just too much... #aintNobodyGotTimeForThat I'm definitely sticking to Basic Italic.

Anyway, there's this website that sells a Getty-Dubay font, which we can use to create or own practice sheets. Like these ones I made and you can download for free: PDF or JPG

Now practice, practice and practice...
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs! 🦊🐶

[Alexander King · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for people looking to improve their handwriting. The book teaches the italic handwriting script rather than modern American cursive. The cursive italic allows for speed like American cursive, but uses letter forms closer to block style printing that are easier to read for people not trained in American cursive.

[GC · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Write Now is designed as a self-instructional course in basic and cursive italic handwriting with an introduction to italic calligraphy'


Google 'cursive handwriting resources' and you will be overwhelmed. In something so niche, there are still hundreds of options. Look no further than Barbara Getty's work - a self-sufficient course. Following her exercises, and within a week, I had transformed my handwriting from print to cursive italic.

Expect it to be slow at first. However, with repetition, cursive italic will flow from your pen onto the page as easily as ice cream poured out of a Mr Whippy machine. What was once laboured is now instinctual. An unexpected bonus is being able to write not only more aesthetically, but also more quickly.

Highly recommended for any adult hoping to write in cursive italic!

[Nicky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a book you read, so much as a set of exercises you work through to improve your handwriting. It's worked for me! My handwriting, which previously resembled ants crawling across the page, is now somewhat more legible and attractive.

[Blair · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the first part, focussing on improving my print handwriting. As far as that is concerned, this book was helpful, and I have a noticeable improvement in my handwriting from before and after completing this book.

[Andrew Watt · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent guide to improving your handwriting by some masters of the art. I was working through this book for a good long while, but I definitely feel that I've improved my handwriting and made great gains in understanding how to help others improve theirs.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have horrid handwriting. This book did help me out a bit, now I just have to choose to write nicely!

[reed · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you want to improve your handwriting, this is the book to use.

[Bryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

didn't end up usiing it, found a better book:

http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-...

[Brice Lambson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has changed my life. I will never look at letters the same way again. I never realized t's have tails. My handwriting also looks outstanding!