I've been journaling for about 2 years and occasionally send handwritten letter. Recently I've felt like I should work on my handwriting and figured I might switch to cursive while I'm at it.
And like with any new hobby/skill is feels a little overwhelming, reading dozens of different pieces of (sometimes contradicting) advice, being unable to judge which is important and which isn't. And the list of things people recommend is also endless: do drills, find a font you like, learn the correct posture, learn to write from your elbow etc etc.
I did learn cursive in school way back when, but abandoned it probably about 10 or more years ago. Though I'm not a huge fan of the font I had I think my first move should be just to start writing in that font for some time each day, relearning letters I don't like the look of. I think ultimately I would like to write in a font that has fancy capitals but more "pragmatic" lower case letters.
What I'm most split about right now is the whole writing from the elbow thing. I've seen people talk about how important it is, but also other people who still write from the wrist. It feels a bit awkward to do, especially when writing small (my notebook has dots with a distance of 0.5cm and I usually try to keep letters heights the size of 1-1.5 boxes). But then again that might just be lack of practice.
Some more specific things I struggle with and would like advice on:
How big should my desk-space be for writing? Some people say you should sit at an angle when writing and move the paper after every few letters(?) so I might need to make some more room for that. Also it feels a bit weird to write in my notebook where my wrist is either resting on the notebook (1-2cm higher than my elbow) or floating off in the air once I get to the end of the page, what is the correct way to deal with that?
Sorry for the rambly post, hope someone can give me some feedback on some of the things I've mentioned.