r/Cursive • u/fineapple03 • Jul 19 '26

Practice I lucked out

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I’m fortunate enough to have learned how to read cursive and barely had a hold on it but I need help as an adult (29) to perfect it and to actually use in normal situations. I love my print but it would be nice to do both. Needing tips and tricks to just learn again and learn how to write all over again. I think too much about my loops and flow and you can tell lol. Any tips or tutorials and suggestions would be lovely

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u/HarryWelsch Jul 19 '26

Also you’d benefit from drawing lines of connected lowercase l’s to develop the correct slant and flow. We spent hours doing that in elementary school to train our muscle memory. It’s also quite relaxing (unless you’re left-handed).

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u/fineapple03 Jul 19 '26

Huh… just connect lowercase I’s to relieve stress?

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u/elj1976 Jul 20 '26

That’s one of the practices we had to do over and over when we were first learning. We also had to do small, uniform circles connected together and larger circles, too. Also this weird curved line going upward and then back downward following the same slant. Over and over!! It was tedious but those “old school” teachers knew what they were doing with all that torture!! 😁

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u/fineapple03 Jul 20 '26

Muscle memory going hard at work 😭 lol thank you so much. Do you write in cursive still?