One was a chatty letter from my mother to her newly married-and-moved-away daughter (me). I came across a few of these not so long ago in a box in my attic. And high-tech magnetic resonance imaging has indeed shown that low-tech writing by hand increases neural activity in certain sections of the brain, much like meditation.īut just as important as these torchy missives are the quotidian letters to and from family and friends. Handwriting increases neural activity in certain sections of the brain, similar to meditation. According to a study performed at the Indiana University, the mere action of writing by hand unleashes creativity not easily accessed in any other way. Here are three proven ways that handwriting is good for your brain.ġ. And in the process, the mindfulness writing engenders encourages calm and creativity. This is perhaps the true magic of a pen: It transports us to unexpected places, on wings that require no more than a timely shot of ink to keep them aloft, destination unknown. They all chose to put pen to paper and see where it took them. Scott Fitzgerald did it, as did Hemingway, Kafka and countless others, each of whom had access to either a typewriter or, later, a computer. Rowling penned The Tales of Beedle the Bard - all 157 pages of it - in longhand, and the leather-bound tome sold for almost $4M at auction. Stephen King purportedly wrote Dreamcatcher in longhand - using a Waterman cartridge pen.
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