- Try to change your handwriting.
- Look up pictures or tutorials online and try to imitate other people’s handwriting. Take a calligraphy or a lettering/design class. Slowly turn your handwriting into something else. This is entirely possible to do and heck, might make you genuinely happy. Think of stylistic embellishments that you can add to your own handwriting. Practice in idle moments, when you’re sitting in class or talking on the phone. Do a google image search for “calligraphy” and study the different scripts. Practice a variety of styles until you find one you really like.
- Embrace your handwriting.
- Recognize that it is distinctly yours, inimitable and unique. Realize that your handwriting is an extension of yourself — so it will have its good days and bad days, days when it hurts you to look at it and others when you will feel proud. Understand that a journal may be beautiful, but it is just a bunch of pieces of paper all bound together. Don’t value it to the exception of your own self-worth. You ARE worthy of that notebook. Your handwriting does NOT have to be perfect. Part of the beauty of journaling is its flaws. We wouldn’t write if it was all good days, all perfection, all the time. My journals are filled with pages where everything flows wonderfully, where every word “spits fire and burns” (thanks Neil Gaiman for that phrase), where my life seems idyllic and beautiful. But there are pages where I have repeated phrases over and over like an errant child at a chalkboard. There are pages where I scribbled things in fury. There are pages with tear stains. There are pages with ugly, ugly handwriting. And pages with beautiful handwriting. When you look at a single day or a single page to the exception of all the others, you might feel dumb, ashamed, sheepish, embarrassed. But bundled together, all those pages have a distinct personality and it’s those things added together that make it wonderful. And that shines through your handwriting.
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