When my mom started teaching me to write, she played on my natural obsessive/compulsive nature and made me trace, write, and repeat until my hands would cramp up and I would start crying. I never had good handwriting, because it has always been a set of mechanical motions coordinated with the shape of each letter. It never felt natural. It never really flowed. Each script character had its own set of instructions. To spell "dog," for example, I would list the instructions in my mind and between each item in my mind, there were stops and jerks, making my penmanship very precise, however knotted and uninteresting.
》"d" starts with a circle and loops up
》finish the loop downward into a curve, so you can connect the next letter
》 the next letter is "o"
》 bring the curve up and reverse into a circle
》 make sure the tail that connects to the next letter comes off of the top of the "o" to the right
》 the next letter is "g"
》 reverse the tail into a circle and connect the circle on the top right side
》 drop into a loop and leave a tail
So now I've decided to try it all again. I'm relearning how to write. It's kind of silly and embarrassing, but it's a healthy occupier of my time.
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