I'm having a heck of a time doing cursivey writing with an emphasis on "flowing" (without picking pen up off paper) rather than just fancy looking. The structure of several letters like s and h are difficult to write in a smooth motion, requiring retracing or sharp changes of direction that make the letters look rough or pulled-apart when I write them, and L and I become almost indistinguisable. Anyone have any thoughts on this stroke flow or flat-out stroke change (think s to cursive s in English)?

Taking some liberties to borrow from English cursive, I'm writing a lower case L to be a bit taller with a slight loop in it while an I looks basically like an English cursive i without the dot. For e I'm writing it more like a 3.

As an example, I found A and a are actually not too hard to write cursivey:


(this is hard to do with a mouse!)

I don't have a brush or marker, though. Just practicing with a pen. Might scan something at office later.