There Is No Quick Way To Reform Your Handwriting.

[conman1975]

There is no quick way to reform your handwriting. It is quite easy if you work at it every day but be prepared for some seemingly childish exercises! I suggest a book called ‘Improve Your Handwriting ‘by Rosemary Sassoon & Gunnlaugur S. E. Briem (Available on Amazon)

 

[sidthecat]

I cobbled together a style based on my interest in Elizabethan writing and its backward ascenders. It looks somewhat eighteenth-century now - casual, not the sort of thing you'd use for a formal letter, but if it's good enough for George III...

[sciumbasci]

Care to share a picture of what has inspired you or your handwriting, sidthecat?

[sidthecat]

Here's a good example of Elizabethan "Secretary Hand". It is, of course, unreadable - you have to take classes to learn to read it - but I was charmed by those ascenders.

 

 

About a hundred years later, HM George III wrote in a style that was clearer and more graceful, but still preserved some of those Elizabethan eccentricities.

 

 

This is what my handwriting looks like now:

 

 

[sciumbasci]

Well, that is some impressive work!

I do like it quite a lot, kudos to you for achieving such a nice style!