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[Trapezohedron]

Let me get my wooden ruler.

Now then. I want you to write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" 1000 times, in all lower case and all capitals. Every time you write a sloppy letter I'm going to hit your knuckles with the edge of the ruler. Your handwriting will be beautiful in no time at all, OR ELSE.

NunBot
Patent Summary: An IR sensor array attached to a mechanical punishment device that performs image recognition on written characters, fitting its responses to a neural network trained towards an idealized style for each grapheme within the language's parameters. The punishments are spaced using a biomonitoring device to ensure maximum attention weighted against otherwise distracting responses towards the device.

A wrinkly old nun cannot be replaced by a robot. Robots have more heart. Come back to me when you have a robowife that has spent 50 years raising hundreds of children with a completely absent husband.

A Classic Chinese teacher during the gradeschool years is better than a nun.

IF YOU DON'T WRITE WELL YOU GET TO WRITE IN FRONT AND GET RIDICULED, AS WELL AS HAVING YOUR EARS PULLED AND BEING SPANKED WITH A LONG-ASS WOODEN RULER.

It's the best of all the worlds.

[ChairmanPoo]

If everything fails try doing a handstand. This will increase blood flow to the motor areas of the brain and help train your fine motor skills thus resulting in a better handwriting

[MetalSlimeHunt]

One day, somebody will post in Life Advice asking how to do a handstand, and on that day Toady will delete Bay 12 and activate the hidden malware in every copy of DF ever distributed.

[BigD145]

Let me get my wooden ruler.

Now then. I want you to write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" 1000 times, in all lower case and all capitals. Every time you write a sloppy letter I'm going to hit your knuckles with the edge of the ruler. Your handwriting will be beautiful in no time at all, OR ELSE.

NunBot
Patent Summary: An IR sensor array attached to a mechanical punishment device that performs image recognition on written characters, fitting its responses to a neural network trained towards an idealized style for each grapheme within the language's parameters. The punishments are spaced using a biomonitoring device to ensure maximum attention weighted against otherwise distracting responses towards the device.

A wrinkly old nun cannot be replaced by a robot. Robots have more heart. Come back to me when you have a robowife that has spent 50 years raising hundreds of children with a completely absent husband.

A Classic Chinese teacher during the gradeschool years is better than a nun.

IF YOU DON'T WRITE WELL YOU GET TO WRITE IN FRONT AND GET RIDICULED, AS WELL AS HAVING YOUR EARS PULLED AND BEING SPANKED WITH A LONG-ASS WOODEN RULER.

It's the best of all the worlds.

There was a big paddle with holes drilled in it to reduce drag through the air. It got some use, with pants pulled down. A seamstresses yard stick is basically a 1x1x36 wood pole. It too got use. Getting dragged to the front of the class by your ears and writing hundreds of sentences on the chalkboard? Yes, that too. The only thing they didn't do is leave any scars.

[Djohaal]

physical scars you mean.

[BigD145]

physical scars you mean.

Yup.

[Bohandas]

If you aren't already try writing in print. Without exception cursive always comes out bad looking

[BigD145]

If you aren't already try writing in print. Without exception cursive always comes out bad looking

Did you just dismiss years of physical pain in the pursuit of perfect cursive writing?
:C

[SquatchHammer]

I had always had good handwriting. I still had to practice to get better at it from when I had started. I have to recommend to practice as much as possible, like either write out a book you like reading or just repeat a sentence over and over that uses most of the movements to create said letters. Or how I did it was write as small as you can legibly and then try to see how many lines of cursive you can put in between the lines of college ruled paper, so far I got to 15 with out using a magnifying glass.

[Priestess_Bri]

Ironically I was thinking about this earlier today... My handwriting used to be amazing when I was in school but rightfully so it's gone down hill once I stopped writing as much. 

[BigD145]

Ask any artist about talent and they're going to tell you about practice and drawing every day. Writing is an art.

[Truean]

Penmanship is artistry and practice.

Consider some style examples, you can google them, find one you like, and then trace it behind a piece of paper. After you've done that a rather large number of times, consider writing it freehand, also a large number of times. Over time you'll develop the muscle memory.

I do so hope that helps.

[Insanegame27]

What you are describing is called dysgraphia. I have it too.
At my school my special needs coordinator has arranged for me to use a keyboard for my HSC courses, along with extra time. I was offered a writer/scribe for it too, but I turned that down for pride reasons.
My family took me to a specialist who works with dysgraphia and he gave me the best advice. Because most people hate writing lines and lines and lines of writing, treatment of that sort either becomes a chore or you start making excuses not to do it. I was one that chose the latter. This particular specialist picked up on it and instead of getting me in trouble and telling my family I wasn't being consistent with my practise he told them that he thought that copying out lines upon lines of writing is a poor way of trying to fix dysgraphia, because the person doing it gets extremely bored extremely quickly.
Instead of copying out pages of a textbook (which is what the first specialist told me to do) I was told to draw as much and often as possible, and told me to keep a loose schedule on it, as long as I draw at least two pages worth of drawings every two to three days I would gradually begin to improve. I could draw anything and everything I wanted. Characters and concepts for video games, animals, plants, weapons, anything I wanted. We went back to the specialist after three exercise books full of drawings, we repeated the dysgraphia tests and I had improved greatly in my ability to write and draw. Even today I draw two pages every two days.
The specialist's logic was that copying from a textbook never keeps people's attention and only improves the handwriting marginally. However, drawing is seen by the majority of people to be very fun thing to do, and keeps your attention. It became something I looked forward to instead of something to loathe.
It was during this time that I picked up creative writing (ie writing stories), which the drawing helped much more than copying notes, because drawing is like writing a story, just in visual form. Drawings constantly evolve, so do stories.
And my hands are starting to ache from typing so much, I may or may not follow this post up with more.


TL;DR: Drawing is better than writing.

[BigD145]

Oh no. Practice is boring. *gasp*

Yes, it can be boring. SIT DOWN AND STUDY

[Reelya]

While I get the temptation to say "just deal with it" that advice is about as relevant to the real world as saying we can solve the smoking issue by just telling people "for fucks sake stop buying cigarettes. problem solved" or telling obese people "stop fucking eating so much. problem solved".

Sure, easy solution = everybody acts perfectly, but it's highly unrealistic and unachievable. Alternate methods are required because of what reality tells us is the case rather than some idealized solution.