High-quality doesn’t have to mean expensive. There are plenty of great pens out there that won’t break the bank. For example, you could use a calligraphy pen, a gel pen, or a simple ballpoint pen. It’s totally up to you and depends on the consistent style you’re going for!
If having the paper straight in front of you feels best, then by all means stick with doing that! It’s just important to know that everyone writes differently, so if something else feels better, that’s totally fine.
If you start gripping your pen too tightly as you write, it can change your handwriting or you can wear out and stop writing with the same pressure. A constant relaxed grip is one of the keys to consistent handwriting!
This can be especially helpful if your hand tends to get tired after writing for a while. Changing up the muscles you use to write with can make you tire out less quickly and keep your handwriting more consistent.
Move anything on the surface you’re writing on out of the way, so you can focus on maintaining a comfortable posture.
Developing consistent handwriting takes a lot of time, dedication, and patience, but you can do it! It’s important to know that even the best of “consistent handwriters” probably aren’t as perfect as you think. Carry your trusty pen and a notebook with you wherever you go just for practicing your handwriting with.
You could also try a drill like writing down words from the dictionary one-by-one or look up creative writing prompts and start a notebook of short stories. Whatever keeps you engaged is great!
The same way you tend to make spelling mistakes and other errors when you write fast, you’re bound to make mistakes in your lettering, which hurt your handwriting’s consistency.
If you don’t have line paper to practice, use a ruler to draw lines on a blank piece of paper. Draw the lines lightly in pencil and erase them later if you want consistent handwriting on a blank piece of paper. You can also place a piece of lined paper underneath a blank one, so you can see the lines through the blank page, to practice your consistency.
For instance, if you notice that the crossbar on your letter “t” slants at a certain angle, make sure you’re writing your “f” with a crossbar at the same angle.
Naturally, you might write documents in smaller or larger font, depending on the size of the page, the line spacing, and other factors. However, the important thing is keeping the sizing of the letters and the words consistent at whatever scale you’re writing at.
Try to keep internal spacing in letters the same, too. For example, keep spacing between the humps and lines in the letters “m,” “n,” and “h” the same and keep the spaces in the middles of letters like “o” and “a” the same.
