If the method is wrong, the efforts will be in vain. This wise saying exists in the study of all walks of life, and so does the practice of calligraphy. Good practice methods can make people make rapid progress, while wrong methods may make practitioners stagnate or even retreat.
First, avoid copying exercises.
Practice good handwriting, not quantity. If you write more, you can write a good hand. Now college students should all be calligraphers. I suggest that you don't stop copying when you practice writing. The words on the copybook are the same length, but the words you wrote are another kind, completely different, and the only thing is the text content. It's no use practicing calligraphy like this.
Second, avoid fishing for three days and drying the net for two days.
Practicing calligraphy is a persistent thing. Practice for a few more days if you are interested, and stop for ten and a half months if you have no motivation. This habit of practicing calligraphy is bound to be difficult to improve. You should write the words a hundred times, and the more you write, the better. You should practice calligraphy every day or at least two or three days to ensure that your hands are not born, and that you can gain something and make progress every time you practice calligraphy.
Third, avoid singleness.
Beginners, in particular, practice regular script if they like it today, cursive script for a while if they like running script tomorrow, and one's font for a while. You can't write every word well and learn it well, and it will delay you in the end.
People who really want to practice good handwriting can practice one font at a time, at least six or seven points, and then master it, but not all of them like it together. Selective learning and targeted learning are more conducive to the progress of writing.
The length, direction and writing of each stroke. The relationship between strokes, such as distance, joint, cross position, etc. Overall characteristics, tall or fat, compact or slightly scattered. Only by seeing each stroke clearly can the whole word look like it. This step is also to convert the font into your memory representation. Only by establishing a general representation of the whole word in your mind can you drive your hand to write beautiful words. Therefore, the first step in practicing calligraphy, I suggest reading and writing more.