It is recommended to start practicing calligraphy from an early age. If you have enough time, you can start with regular calligraphy brush calligraphy, and then move on to regular regular hard-pen calligraphy.
If you want to achieve it quickly (almost unlikely), buy a printed copybook and practice every day. Recommended facial body, European body. Copying is an essential part. Like learning to draw, it also exercises our observation ability.
You can choose the rice grid at the beginning, and understand the structure of each character and the distance between strokes. Practice more and practice makes perfect. Slowly abandon those boundaries and replace them with squares, then blank squares. Don't be hasty, just do it bit by bit.
When you throw away the copybook later, you should forget how it was written and rely on your own understanding to write. What is taboo is copying too much and not being able to get out of the box, thus losing yourself. The font will be stiff and rigid.
Why are we required to write regular script when we first start practicing calligraphy? Because regular script has stricter requirements for writers. Horizontal and vertical strokes, strokes, strokes, and strokes all require us to be focused, serious, and upright like a human being.
Especially for children, we must let them sit on the bench, calm down and write slowly.
Soft-pen calligraphy helps us understand how to write, how to move, and how to write. Control your own wrist, how to lay out text, and understand the structure of fonts. Although there are very few opportunities to use soft-pen calligraphy in daily life, it is also a good way to cultivate one's moral character.
From soft pen to hard pen, after mastering various rules, you can form your own font. Take myself as an example. I have been learning regular script for several years. At that time, I was taught it in an academy in a small town by a teacher with a great accent. As I grew up, due to the requirement of writing, I began to write very quickly. I taught myself continuous writing, and by drawing parallels, I accidentally ended up writing running script. But the foundation of regular script will never be forgotten.