How to Practice beautiful handwriting

Hold the pen properly. ^[6] Many people hold their pen too tightly to try to control the stroke, but that often hurts the hand and leads to bad handwriting. You need to hold the pen gently in your hand.

• Place your index finger on the tip of the pen, about 2.5 cm from the nib.
• Place your thumb on the side of the pen.
• Use the side of your middle finger to support the bottom of the pen.
• Ring and little fingers for comfort and naturalness.

Use your whole arm when writing. Most bad handwriting is usually because writers tend to only use their fingers to “draw” the letters. Correct writing technique requires you to use every muscle from your fingers to your shoulder, creating a smooth movement of the brush stroke across the page instead of the jerky movement commonly seen in people who “draw” words. Fingers need to act as a guide instead of a force when writing. You should note the following: ^[7]

• Don’t just use your fingers to write; You should use both arms and shoulders.
• Do not lift your hand to move after writing a few words; You need to use your whole arm to move your hand smoothly across the page as you write.
• Keep the wrist as steady as possible. You should move your arm, using your fingers to guide the pen to make different strokes, but your wrist should not move much.

Practice writing simple strokes and circles. Holding and moving the pen properly, write a line of straight strokes across the entire page. The strokes should be slightly tilted to the right. On the bottom line, write a row of circles, trying to be as even and round as possible. Practice the correct technique of writing lines and circles every 5-10 minutes until you can control the stroke.

• Try to keep the straight strokes of equal length and angle. Circles should be of equal roundness and size, and neatly enclosed.
• The dashes and circles may be slanted at first. The dashes can be of different lengths, slanted at different angles, etc. Some circles are very round, others are oval; some are neatly enclosed, others have lines that overlap and deviate at the end of the stroke.
• This exercise seems simple, but don’t be discouraged if the initial strokes and circles are not neat. Keep practicing a little bit each day, and you’ll find that the more you practice, the better you get.
• The ability to control lines and curves well will help you write more clearly.

Switch to writing letters. ^[8] Once you’re familiar with the correct posture, pen grip, and hand movement while writing strokes and circles, you can move on to practicing writing letters. But don’t rush into writing whole sentences right away – instead, practice writing each letter line like you did when you first learned to write as a kid.

• Write at least 10 times each letter in uppercase and 10 times in lowercase on a lined page.
• Write the entire alphabet at least 3 times per day.
• Try to make the letters even: all “a”s should be the same, and all “ts” should be tilted at the same angle.
• The legs of the letters need to be on the line of the page.

Practice writing the entire paragraph. You can copy a passage from a book, write your own passage, or simply copy this article. However, you will practice writing all the letters if you use sentences that include all the letters of the alphabet. ^[9] You may find it interesting to come up with such sentences yourself or search for such sentences on the internet, or you can use the following English sentences:

• The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
• Jim quickly realized that the beautiful gowns are expensive.
• Few quips galvanized the mock jury box.
• Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.

Practice slowly. Don’t expect your handwriting to improve overnight – it can take a long time to erase the memory of the muscles that have developed after years of bad handwriting. However, with the hard work of sharpening iron, you will eventually notice an improvement in your handwriting.

• Do not rush. While some situations require you to write quickly – like when taking notes in class or in meetings, when possible, slow down and focus on getting your handwriting even.
• Gradually, as your hands and arms begin to get used to the new writing movement, you can speed up your writing while maintaining the same clarity of writing as you would with slow writing.

Write by hand whenever possible. If you’re serious about improving your handwriting, you have to be determined to practice. People often prefer to use a computer or tablet to take notes with a pen and paper, but your handwriting will start to fall back to sloppy if you don’t continue to exercise the hands and arms used to write.

• Putting techniques in practice sessions into practice: always carry a good quality pen and paper; find a table top of the right height; Maintain good posture, hold the pen properly, place the paper at a comfortable angle, and let your fingers guide the pen while your arms play the role of moving the pen across the page.

Use writing materials and maintain the same posture as you would print. The only difference between print and cursive is the shape of the letters. Keep the tips in the first two parts of this article in mind as you practice cursive: use good quality materials, a writing desk of the right height, good posture, and the right grip.

Recall the cursive letters in the alphabet. You probably learned to write all uppercase and lowercase letters as a kid. However, like many adults, after years of not practicing, you may not remember how cursive is written. Although many cursives are quite similar to print, some letters, such as the letter “g,” are both capitalized and lowercase.

• Buy cursive writing books in the stationery section of the supermarket or buy them at school supplies stores if they are not available in the supermarket. If neither of those places sell, you can buy it online.
• You can also easily find free cursive templates online. ^[10]

Practice writing each letter in both upper and lower case. Similar to print, you should also practice writing loose cursive, like a beginner in cursive. Make sure to follow the correct pen strokes when writing each letter. ^[11]

• First you should write each letter separately. Write a row of 10 capital A’s, a row of 10 lowercase a’s, a row of uppercase B, etc… remember to write each letter separately.
• However, you should remember that in cursive writing, the letters are joined together. Once you’ve gotten used to writing each letter separately, repeat the above step, but this time connect the letters to the letter that comes after it.
• Note that the uppercase cursives are usually not joined together in the text; so you would write an uppercase A and connect a string of 9 lowercase a’s.

Complete the lines between the letters. Aside from the shape of the letters, the biggest difference between cursive and print that you can clearly see is that the letters in a word are joined together when writing in cursive. As such, it’s important that you be able to join two letters together naturally without having to agonize over how to write them. To practice this writing, you should write according to the letter patterns in the alphabet, rotating the letters every day to not get bored and practice writing all the different strokes.

• Write from the top of the table to the middle of the alphabet: azbycxdwevfugthsirjqk-plomn
• Write backwards from the bottom of the table to the middle of the alphabet: zaybxcwdveuftgshriqjp-kolnm
• Write from the beginning to the end of the alphabet, without space: acegikmoqsuwy; bdfhjlnprtvxz
• Write from the bottom of the table to the top of the table, omitting two letters: zwtqmkheb; yvspmjgda; xurolfc
• Just keep on writing. You can create as many different types of writing as you like – the point here is simply to focus on creating lines that connect different letters.
• Another benefit of this exercise is that you can’t write fast, because letters don’t make up real words. By forcing yourself to slow down, you can practice writing letters and joining letters together slowly and carefully.

Write sentences and paragraphs. As you did in the previous section, you should move on to writing words, sentences, and paragraphs as you get used to writing each letter. Use sentences that include all the letters of the alphabet that you have practiced in print.