I was trolling around the “blog-osphere” today and came across TabletPCBlogs, a site that provides free blogs to people writing about tablet pc’s. One of the blogs on the site had a link to this article by Dyas Lawson about improving your handwriting.
A very interesting article that explains the differences in writing styles – finger-writing and hand-writing. As he points out most people taught to write after about 1955 are finger-writers, ie they draw the letters using only their fingers. This results in a cramped, untidy writing style (eg mine!). To obtain elegant, flowing hand-writing, you actually need to utilise your whole arm and shoulder in the action and not really use your fingers at all. Bit of a revelation that was. But it makes sense when you think about it a bit.
I think I’m going to go and practice my handwriting for a while now 
