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Handy Handedness
If you've ever hurt your hand, you know how this is; you suddenly feel so uncoordinated trying to accomplish the most simple tasks. Where is this topic coming from? It's because Saturday August 13th is Left Handed Day. So those right handed people reading this newsletter, raise your left hand and use it!
So for a fun tongue twister...try to read this newsletter aloud and quickly, hahahaha. There are four types of handedness: left-handedness, right-handedness, mixed-handedness, and ambidexterity.
Right handed is the most common dominant hand. In baseball, coaches often decide pitching and batting by the handedness of the team player coming up to bat. Many tools and musical instruments are designed for right handedness.
Left handed is more common among men than women. I also read that lower-birth-weight and complications at birth are positively correlated with left-handness. An excess of non-right-handedness in schizophrenia is demonstrated as an empirical effect. One systematic review concluded: "Left-handers showed no systematic tendency to suffer from disorders of the immune system". (Love that Wikipedia, there's a story in there somewhere.) Fourteen of the top twenty career batting averages in Major League Baseball history have been posted by left-handed batters. Black magic is sometimes referred to as the "left-hand path". Kangaroos and other macropod marsupials have a left-hand preference for everyday tasks in the wild.
Cross-dominance or mixed-handedness is the change of hand preference between tasks. In other words, a person could write with a pen in their right hand but bat baseball lefty. A person who is cross-dominant can also be stronger on the opposite side of the body that they favor; for example, a right-handed person can be stronger on the left side. Cross-dominance can often be a problem when shooting or in activities that require aim, although athletes can still achieve success in sports that require accuracy, like passing in American football and shooting in basketball.
Ambidexterity is exceptionally rare, although it can be learned. A truly ambidextrous person is able to do any task equally well with either hand. Those who learn it still tend to favor their originally dominant hand. Some days I dearly wish I had this talent.
So with your dominant or non-dominant hand, Write On!
This month's question: Have you ever been forced to use your non-dominant hand for a length of time? How did it make you feel? How do you use that in your writing?
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Excerpt: There is only one thing I can do. I move my head in closer and sink my teeth into the back of the possessed hand.
Excerpt: This note is from Mrs. Kenny, she said you insist on using your left hand in school and she wants me to do something about it. Well, I guess I WILL do something about it. Don't you understand it's not natural to write that way. If God wanted you to write with your left hand He would have made everyone write with their left hand. The devil is inside you making you do it and there is only one way to exorcise him."
Excerpt: They were the same, and always had been. Paul and Virginia met in college during an astronomy field trip. He looked through the telescope, then she. Their hands met under a Van Gogh sky and the rest was stone. Music, movies, art, food – everything had some common ground. Paul was instantly Virginia's hero, because no one had ever met her needs so completely. One came to always rely on the other's ability to pick up the pieces. Two peas in a pod. Two sides of a coin. Yin and Yang. All of it. That was them.
Excerpt: The year was 1876, the middle of a hot June. I was punching cattle across the panhandle and across New Mexico. The Indians were putting up a fair fight, the South was getting some of its pride back and carpetbaggers were green with money. The West was as quiet as it was going to get for a long time.
I happened to be settin’ in El Paso, laying down after a long cattle drive back from Kansas, and a bit hung over when he walked through the swinging doors of Jack Doyle’s place, all haggard and dusty.
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This month's question: Have you ever been forced to use your non-dominant hand for a length of time? How did it make you feel? How do you use that in your writing?
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Last month's question: Do you ever find yourself researching something odd? How do you use that information in your writing?
StephBee  responded: I'll usually research something if I find it odd. I'm always game to learn something new. Interesting tidbit: My cub scout pack built a trebuchet in the summer of 2015 for our family camp. The boys had a great time launching watermelons from it.
A*Monaing*Faith  replied: I was wondering where you were going with that...like how can medieval war machines be funny...good job.
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