Well, I am indeed late to this particular party.
First, in my mind writing is longhand is "cursive" and printing is printing.
Like most people my age (over fifty) I learned to recognize the printed letters first and then to print them by hand. Writing came next and I spent at least one year in school learning how to write correctly and legibly. I learned to print all over again (and much better) in junior high school and then high school drafting classes. And then I really learned how to print in college engineering classes.
Along the way I learned to type as a high school sophomore. That was one of the best years of high school because there were only four or five guys in a class full of girls. Much to my later chagrin it turned out to be incredibly useful when the computer came along for good in the early nineties. Who knew, eh? Just recently it was brought to my attention that I have been unnecessarily putting two spaces between sentences...a holdover from my typing education. But typing isn't writing or printing so back to the subject at hand...
I had never even heard of the word, "cursive" until my wife used it when homeschooling our children. For me it was always "writing," "handwriting" or "long hand."
So, that said, my handwriting is, in my opinion, pretty good. At least, it's pretty good when I am writing for someone else to read. If I am writing for myself or if I am in a hurry then I will usually print. That's because I can print faster than I can write well and legibly. I spent much more time learning to print in a machine-like manner over the years so I just do it better and faster than handwriting.
If I have a choice (and I usually do these days) I much prefer to compose my thoughts and communications to others on a keyboard. This is because it's infinitely more legible than anything else out there and (most importantly) it's infinitely correctable. I will compose a paragraph or a post or whatever and then go back over it several times to try and make sure that I am saying precisely what I want to say. More often than not words are removed that are unnecessary to making a point.
I don't write or print anywhere near as much as I used to but when I do I always try and do it well.
So...that's me on writing.
