I was taught to write at school using a sort of copperplate cursive style, which you could only do slowly, so trying to write quickly meant my handwriting was crap.
Then I got a job at a small print and publishing company, and the bloke in charge of typesetting had really neat handwriting, so I set about trying to copy it. I never achieved his level of neatness in cursive writing, but for marking up copy and proofreading I developed a pretty neat style, and even my cursive writing has improved over the years, especially now I usually use a fountain pen, which really helps for some reason. It’s taken nearly fifty years to get there, mind!
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