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Originally Posted by HarryT
If there is a "comfortable" way to write left-handed with a fountain pen without smudging the ink, I'd love to know what it is, because I've never found it  .
The only way I ever discovered was what I think you are describing - "doubling your hand up" and effectively writing backwards, from above, which is very uncomfortable indeed. |
My Dad was a leftie, and he always wrote that way. Even with a pencil or ball point. He learned it in grammar school. They had "penmanship" classes in those days where all they used were fountain pens, and he got into the habit and carried it for his entire life.
Also, everyone in his generation had their own personal fountain pen. No one else was allowed to use it. The belief was that the nib would get broken in to your style of writing, and if someone else used it it would mess up the wear pattern.