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

Part two How to put things right

day. On the other hand you may already need to write a lot and just want to speed up your handwriting, or improve its appearance.

Wanting to change your handwriting may be an indication that you are ready, or wanting, to change a whole lot of other things in your life as well. You alone can decide what you wish to change and why.

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.

Rhythm and texture

To reduce the size of your writing, use a nib or fibre tip with a finer point.

Self-diagnosis How to begin diagnosing your writing problems

If your writing is good but the way it is set out on the page is unsatisfactory

If it is too complicated,