In school, they stuck all of us in front of a handwriting book and told us to work on it. No tips, no instructions, just the book. My printing is terrible.

I taught myself cursive so that’s a bit better, but I still can’t write quickly. I’ve taught myself to angle my handwriting more to the right because then I can write faster, but my normal tendency is to go slowly with no slant.

My handwriting is very small and angular.

I don’t have the time or attention span to sit around for an hour every day working on my lower-case ‘d’, but I’m a little worried because I’m taking the AP US history exam in May and my handwriting has some quirks that could be a problem.

My ‘e’s often look like ‘i’s, if I have an ‘l’ after an ‘o’ it looks like a ‘d’, and I have a tendency to omit the stem of an ‘i’ and just have the dot somewhat ambiguously placed.

How can I improve my handwriting enough to be basically legible?