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Help for dh to improve handwriting
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This may seem like an awful silly thing to post on a homeschool forum, but it’s legitimate, I promise.
My dh has recently taken a great interest in fountain pens. He purchased his first pen at Thanksgiving, used Christmas money to purchase another one, received a journal from me, and received a bottle of ink from a pen-collecting brother-in-law. He’s very into it, and I want to encourage his little hobby.
The problem is that my dh has terrible handwriting. Even he would tell you that. I can barely read it most of the time. He has expressed a desire to improve his writing and has even looked at samples of other men’s handwriting online that are styles he would like to learn. (His brother-in-law has very nice, yet masculine, handwriting; and I think that has inspired my dh.) He knows it’s pretty useless to collect all these beautiful (and expensive!) pens and not be able to read his own writing.
Do you have any ideas for a man to improve his writing? My only suggestion to him was that I would be glad to print off some copywork for him–and he wasn’t opposed! LOL
Blessings,
Lindsey
How about a calligraphy course? We know a man who learned calligraphy to I prove his handwriting and he does beautiful work. He’s one of our milk share customers and he addresses the envelopes and writes the checks in calligraphy. Lovely! I don’t know how his regular handwriting is now but it’s worth a try.
I actually changed my handwriting when I was a teenager because I did not like how my writing or printing looked. I found different “samples”, so to speak, of others’ writing that I liked and then started basically doing copy work from it. Though I did not know what copy work was at the time! After I became more proficient I was able to add some of my own style into the writing to make it more my own and then I just practised until it became just how I write.
I do think that the older you are the harder it may be to change because you will not only need to change the habit mentally but there will also be muscle memory to overcome as well. His hands will want to write the way they have been accustomed to and it will feel weird for him to do it differently for a while. At least until he has strengthened new muscles in his hands. If he truly is open to your help and even to copywork, then I would start by relearning the proper way to sit, hold a pen, position a paper, etc. when handwriting and then start with copying some basic strokes or simple letters taken from the sample writing he has chosen. Then just keep practising the individual letters until he is good at them. Then he would move in to connecting them into words. Maybe he could keep his own book of mottoes? That would be an interesting way to slowly practice your writing but it might not seem as silly, perhaps? Just a thought.
Anyway, just thought I would let you know that it is more than doable and I was able to do it this way. HTH!
-Miranda
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