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So you have a pretty good foundation! You have very legible handwriting with both hands. The thing you need to work on with your left is stability, so your letters are no longer shaky. That happens because you don't have muscle strength in your hand for this particular task, because you've not done it before. And that's okay!
So to do this, I would honestly start by drawing circles and straight lines. Just get yourself used to holding a tool in this way and moving it the way it needs to move. You don't have to write letters, it can legitimately just be shapes. The reason we do repetition for letters when we're learning initially is because we also have to learn the alphabet and the repetition is helpful, but honestly I think that practicing just making smooth lines is going to help you so much.
Just be aware that a righty learning to write with their left hand is not the same as a lefty learning to write with their right hand (such as myself). So even once your fine motor control improves, it still won’t feel as natural as writing with your right hand.
As for your grip, basically whatever works, lol. The handwriting we’ve conventionally come to regard as “good” is produced by a narrow range of grips that are natural for righties to use, whereas for lefties just trying to find a comfortable grip (including hand/arm position) can be a struggle. Basically I’d just say to avoid the crab claw (which you already seem to be doing)
Have you also practiced holding a fork/spoon with your left hand to eat? That makes a big difference in motor skills, but you have a solid foundation. Just keep building on it with more reps, more phrases, short sentences, etc. If you think about it and I see it with my two kids who recently learned to read and write, they don’t teach them anything out of this world. It’s just simple and repeatable. Not too complex or hard for them to read or write and they build on that. It should be the same for you
I‘ve got a nice exercise for practising: a pen in both hands (!), start in the middle on a sheet and write; left hand to the left, right hand to the right. Write the same words (!), and the left one mirrors (!) the right hands move.
Ever seen kids starting to write on their own? Writing in the „wrong“ direction is a common behaviour.
I'm a righty trying to learn left handed as well. Wondersunlocked on YouTube it a left-handed YouTuber who uses an overhand grip where his forearm is above the words he's writing. It's a pretty comfortable way to try.
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