Fine line script lettering design reading focus on the good, drawn in black on a plain white background.

Focus on the good script lettering

Fine line · Black and grey · Flash

A handwritten style phrase, focus on the good, is drawn in thin black cursive lettering across the middle of the image. The linework is even and delicate, with flowing joins and a slight slant. The plain white background and centred composition leave the text as the only subject.

Fine line Lettering Script Phrase Cursive

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, the kettle has been on twice since I started this, which is about how long it takes me to make my handwriting behave. Your father always said I wrote like a spider had fallen in the ink. I've decided to write slowly, the way Mrs Pryce taught us at the Board school, with the joins flowing and no lifting the pen until the word is finished.

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The house on Marrow Lane has sold. The man from the estate agent measured the hallway twice and said nothing about the damp. I found your old school jotter in the airing cupboard, the one with the tide tables you copied out for a project nobody asked for. On the inside cover, in pencil, you'd written the thing your gran used to say on the bus home from Scarborough, and I've been turning it over since.

I'm not going to tell you what to do about the boat or about Caroline. You're thirty-four and I've run out of standing in doorways. What I can offer is the same three words I wrote on every birthday card for thirty years, which I'm starting to think were the only sensible advice I ever had. Focus on the good.

The kettle's boiling again. I'll post this when I've found a stamp, which may take a while because I keep fussing over the loops. Love, Mum.