Christmas
This beautiful selection about Christmas was written in Pre-Anniversary and appeared in the December 1928 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: christmas.pdf
Lighthouse Illumination
This article written in Anniversary appeared in the December 1930 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: lighthouse-illumination.pdf
Working and Doing
This article written by Mr. Henry Ford that originally appeared in the Dearborn Independent was written in Pre-Anniversary for the December 1928 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: working-and-doing.pdf
A Job for Cinderella
The following story written in Simplified was serialized in the November and December 1950 issues of Today’s Secretary. Attachment: a-job-for-cinderella.pdf
Penmanship Practice – December 2015
From the December 1950 issue of Today’s Secretary. Click here for a full view.
Comparison of Various Notehand Editions
I compiled this chart showing the identical (or similar) paragraphs/units that are found between the various Notehand texts. Since all three editions are out of print, I mainly did this to help the teacher match up lessons with my dictation recordings, for whichever text a student might happen to have. This chart will also help…
Gregg and other shorthand books from Openlibrary
Here are some books that can be borrowed from Openlibrary. Some of you may be aware of this site. But for those few searching souls that stumble upon this blog it may be helpful. It requires to register on site and also to have Adobe Digital Editions installed. p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 120%; }a:link…
Forkner Shorthand
For those shorthand history enthusiasts: Here is Forkner shorthand manual: http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082133714;view=1up;seq=1 I have downloaded pages and saved them in one pdf. I would like to share it but don’t know whether it will cause troubles. Sasa
Rough Notes for a Gaming Adventure
This was written in a college-ruled notebook and contains some rough notes for an adventure I’m working on called The Death Cult: http://skogensskuggor.tumblr.com/post/132825924280/notes-for-a-swords-wizardry-adventure. It’s my first post on Tumblr; hopefully one of what will be a long series of rough notes, ideas, narrative, etc for gaming and fiction. I plan to run this using a tabletop…
NaNoWriMo
Just curious… is there anyone doing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)… in shorthand? Does anyone find it faster to write this way? So many complain that they don’t like to write by hand, that typing can keep up with their thoughts better. So I’m curious if anyone has tried doing NaNo in shorthand, since shorthand…