- How are you focused mentally?
- Do you think about other things at the same time?
- Are you focused on the lines, the imaginary half line, the staring points, the previous letter alignment, spacing, what comes next, what will fit on the line, the artistic expression of style, or simply the pure minimal effort required to communicate written thought?
- Do you often find yourself bored and evolving or changing your style of writing as an outlet of secondary creativity along with whatever task is at hand?
- Are you concerned with the impact your writing style has upon others, or are you only concerned with the expansion of your own short/long term memory and usefulness?
- Are you aware of the loose correlation between intellect and handwriting? What does that mean to you personally.
- Are the ergonomics a point of conscious focus?
Calligraphy. You can do all that over thinking while you are learning a new script then repeat each letter literally a few thousand times. After that it is just muscle memory.
Some people have a more steady hand than others. Like I can do professional sign lettering, but it is super difficult and slow for me to do because I do not have very steady hands.
I can paint stuff like candies (dye based paints that get infinitely darker with overlapping), and pearls, that are both shot basically blind by intuition and muscle memory, but I cannot see hand written lettering and what I want to project onto the page, in advance of actually drawing it. I’m more like a bushwhacker with a machete most of the time.
That’s what calligraphy is for. You start unsteady and after a few pages your strokes get better and better. You keep doing that until your hand just flows. Some people first acquire precision then speed and others (me included) first go for speed and steadiness and then acquire the precision.
And after that keep writing by hand. It is hard to visualise something you don’t do often enough.