I just wanted to give this tip, which I found to improve my own handwriting (drastically) recently. My handwriting had been getting much worse over the last few years and I didn't understand why. Then I realized, I had begun "leading" wirh different fingers... or should i say, I stopped "leading" with the "correct" finger: my middle finger on my right hand.
Since I was a kid, I had very good handwriting, and even got the "best handwriting" award in the 4th grade. I didn't realize I did this, but I always "led" with my middle finger. It's odd to describe because no one ever told me to do this, but... I naturally just used my middle finger, on the hand I wrote with, my right hand, to express my thoughts and ideas. It's as if my middle finger was naturally guiding the writing, and the ideas and words were "flowing through" that finger.
Well, over the years, as I developed more stress, bills piled up, and I developed a sense of stress and anxiety, somehow I lost my nautral tendency to use my strongest finger (which, like I said, I didn't even realize I had done to begin with). For some reason I started "leading" my writing with my ring finger or pinky. It's as if, as I lost focus, my HAND lost focus, and my ideas and thoughts were drifting to other fingers.
I know this may sound odd, but... for anyone who has poor handwriting, I just wanted to suggest that you try focusing on using your right middle finger, when you write (or whatever your strongest finger is). It works brilliantly. I even did a test on a piece of paper, writing "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy black dog" and was surprised to see how it turned out, using different fingers.
Using my pointer finger and ring finger, the handwriting was about the same: impatient, a little smaller, kind of messy but legible. Looked a little like my Mom's writing. Hasty but to the point. She doesn't mince words.
Concentrating on using my pinky, it was very very small and hard to read, kind of like a doctor's handwriting.
But using my middle finger, the handwriting was decisive, "swirly" and easy to read. That's the handwriting that people have always made nice comments on.
God only knows why I started switching over to the other fingers... I guess it's just plain aging and stress. It makes you do crazy things you otherwise wouldn't.
Just wanted to share this with anyone else who may have a similar issue. My stepdaughter has handwriting issues and I'm going to share this with her as well.
