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

Remember, however, that you cannot write any faster than you can think. Some people are slow, deep thinkers, while others think faster than they can write.

Part one Handwriting problems

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.

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.

2 If you hold your pen awkwardly it

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

3 If the letters are leaning in all directions

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

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