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[Inkyways]

Hi James! welcome here

Greetings from North London.

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Edited January 4, 2018 by Cjayant

[Cormite]

Welcome aboard, James, from Charleston, South Carolina. When I wanted to improve my handwriting, I watched some instructional videos on YouTube, and wrote down suggestions and practiced a bit. In the meantime, I bought a workbook on Amazon called Write Now by authors Getty & Dubay, on a reccomemdation from this website, which teaches cursive italic handwriting, which I’ve enjoyed quite a bit. Other things which helped significantly, were learning proper size and spacing of letters (the Getty and Dubay booked helped me learn this).

Another helpful thing, was that I paid attention to words which I consistently wrote poorly or found hard to write legibly for one reason or another. I collected these words, and used them to create a practice page of words difficult for me. Then, I used that page for my daily practice when I had satisfactorily mastered the Getty and Dubay practices. This alone really improved my writing, as I got plenty of practice writing the words that were the hardest for me. I continue to add words, and related words. For example, words with double g ( like “aggregate” and “aggravate”) or words beginning with “axo-“ like axle, axon, axonal, axiomatic. I believe there was a topic ousted somewhere on this website entitled something like Difficult Words, which gave me a list of other words difficult to write (like “manumission” and “Mississippi”) . Most improvement came with practicing daily for about half an hour. I hope this helps. If I can locate the posting about Difficult Words, I’ll try to link it here. Good luck.

Mike

 

 

Hi James, welcome from Heidelberg!

 

Mike's suggestion is so good that I could not avoid quoting and keeping it for myself as well

 

Best,

Carlos.

[dhon27]

Welcome from another new member!

Desmond

[Henricum_Tropen]

Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.