Tips for improving your handwriting

"You’ve decided you want to improve your handwriting and you’re probably hoping a fountain pen will do the trick -- maybe a friend told you it would. Maybe you’re just adventurous and you want to try your hand at calligraphy (or you might, once your handwriting improves). Good for you!

A fountain pen may make your writing look a bit better, but if your writing looks as if frenzied chickens got loose on the page, chances are this won’t be enough. Most likely, you’ll need to retrain your arm and hand.

After coaching handwriting and teaching calligraphy over the years, I’ve learned to see the characteristics of those who’ll be able to pick up the necessary motions quickly from those who’ll have to work a bit harder.

Tight, crampy letters drawn with fingersCrampy, uneven letters are often the result of drawing the letters with the fingers rather than using the whole arm to write.

 

People who inevitably have trouble with handwriting and calligraphy write with their fingers. They "draw" the letters. A finger-writer puts the full weight of his/her hand on the paper, his fingers form the letters, and he picks his hand up repeatedly to move it across the paper as he writes."

Dyas A. Lawson
Tips for improving your handwriting
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Comments

[Leon]

Thanks, it is a good link! I have cited the aritcle and your site in here - http://www.lifehack.org/index.php?p=26