<p>I goofed off in second grade when we were learning how to write and have had terrible handwriting ever since. I'm sure this isn't uncommon in the CC community, but has anyone gone back and learned how to write well? Are there any good books on penmanship for those past elementary school?</p>
<p>Haha, I'm pretty new to this "writing" thing too. After being teased by my teachers enough, I gave up cursive during junior year (it had deteoriated with time from 3rd grade on). So for the past couple years I've been trying to write in print. It looks like crap.</p>
<p>LOL... I think I gave up cursive in elementary school. Most teachers actually prefer print because it's easier to read. I wish that I could do cursive better as it is quicker but normally it's so messy that I'm the only one that can read it.</p>
<p>I always got bad penmanship grades in elementary school. At the end of eighth grade, I decided that I wanted to write neatly. It took a few years for me to be able to write somewhat quickly and neatly, but I get a lot of compliments on my handwriting now ("It looks like Arial Narrow font!"). </p>
<p>Slow waaay down when you write and concentrate on forming the letters well. Concentrate on making the slant the same and the letters of uniform height. You'll get faster and better as you practice. </p>
<p>Fine motor skills do improve as you get beyond elementary school. Why on earth people think that kids should learn handwriting then and not when their bodies are ready for it is beyond me.</p>
<p>The only point to learning cursive is to learn how to sign your name, even then you can sign your name however you want legally, so there is no point at all to learning cursive. I haven't used cursive since 7th grade. After high school, anything I have ever done has been on a computer, so drilling kids for days on end about how to write letters perfect is stupid if everything is going to be on a word processor regardless.</p>
<p>Bad penmanship occurs naturally in my family, none of the men in my family can write worth a crap. </p>
<p>I remember the hell that was penmanship in second grade, but eventually I thought, hey, I'm a lefty anyway, it's still going to be smudged and ugly, so why bother. Also, since I can type at a decent clip, it really hasn't mattered.</p>
<p>cursive is pretty</p>
<p>but it's damn annoying to read because it's all loopy and slanty and ughhhh
I don't think i can read cursive stuff</p>
<p>Don't write in cursive. Make it easier on both of us.</p>
<p>What I did was, I got a friend with the most perfect handwriting ever. I'd trace her handwriting whenever I had the chance and now my writing is more like hers. Or atleast it was. I didn't see her very much last year, so my handwriting is a little ugly, but people still say its pretty, so. ^_^</p>
<p>I always won those "Best Penmanship" contests in school, but my writing now is terrible. I have problems with my hands (I get notetakers in class, whoohoo!), but even on good days, it's just scratch. I'd be lost without computers. :p</p>
<p>I also hate cursive. It's too much of a pain to write /and/ read. I wish we'd abolish it for good.</p>