My new book By Hand explores the importance and benefits of writing by hand, especially in an age of digital tools and AI. To celebrate the art of handwriting, I’m holding a contest in which three winners—from any country in the world, whatever language they speak and whatever alphabet they use–will receive free copies of […]
It is remarkable how many of the roughly 300 scripts in use around the world have been created in response to dreams—at least 20. In some instances the dream involved a divine command to create a script for the dreamer’s community; in some cases it included actual shapes to be used as letters; in some […]
I am creating a global network of Script Keepers–that is, people all over the world who care about script preservation and revival. I’ve been studying and trying to promote indigenous and minority writing systems for 16 years, and yet when I say “Endangered Alphabets” most people just look blank and confused. There is little interest in or funding […]
There is very little recognition, let alone praise, for people who are working to revive their traditional or emerging scripts. An endangered or emerging alphabet is almost always a symptom of a marginalized or suppressed community—a group of people who are routinely dismissed or discriminated against by their neighbors and, often, by the regional or […]
