Improve Your Handwriting: Teach Yourself: Learn to write in a confident and fluent hand: the writing classic for adult learners and calligraphy enthusiasts

A training model

Rhythm and texture

The first exercise to practise is just downstrokes, all the same height. They should have the same slant. You may well ask what slant you should choose, if your writing is at different angles.

right. You must train a correct movement, not reinforce a wrong one, so do not be tempted to hurry. That is a wasted effort. One good line of pattern is far more valuable than a whole page of badness. There will be plenty of opportunity to speed things up later

Part two How to put things right

Regaining control

More serious problems

You need to be able to do the spirals by moving your pen with your fingers without having to move your whole hand.

It is important that you should be able to move your fingers freely. You can test this by trying the relaxing exercises on page 25.