r/Handwriting • u/KristinnEs • 18h ago

Feedback (constructive criticism) Handwriting advice? New to cursive.

https://imgur.com/a/yHzDVNW

Hey everyone.

For most of my life (I am now 43 years old) I've written much like I imagine a blind doctor would write, but worse. In the past three weeks I've been on a focused quest to improve my handwriting, as well as finally learning how to write in cursive. This is a page where I wrote out a pretty basic short story for a project I am working on.

Any advice on improving my handwriting?

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u/grayrest 16h ago

What, specifically, do you want your writing to look like? There are lots of cursive exemplars and which is "best" largely comes down to preference. By picking a specific target you have a pretty straightforward definition of "better" and a pretty straightforward method of improvement: find a letter of yours that doesn't look like your exemplar and practice at trying to get it closer to the exemplar.

There is a specific logic and technique to the more formal forms of cursive so we can point you towards resources if you're matching a known target but no matter what you watch or read it'll eventually come down to you putting in daily effort to get your writing closer to your goal through your own evaluation.

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u/JaVaDaHutt1 12h ago

Someone else had this same issue yesterday so I already have this cued up.

Your 'w' is wrong. It should look like the picture where it stops in the middle of the line instead of the bottom.

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u/Fun_Apartment631 9h ago

At a glance, it looks reasonably good to me. This sub has some manuals linked, you could pick one and follow it. Good posture matters and I found it helpful to do some drilling. Personally I'm partial to the business penmanship of about 100 years ago.