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Some people have a more steady hand than others. Like I can do professional sign lettering, but it is super difficult and slow for me to do because I do not have very steady hands.
I can paint stuff like candies (dye based paints that get infinitely darker with overlapping), and pearls, that are both shot basically blind by intuition and muscle memory, but I cannot see hand written lettering and what I want to project onto the page, in advance of actually drawing it. I'm more like a bushwhacker with a machete most of the time.
That's what calligraphy is for. You start unsteady and after a few pages your strokes get better and better. You keep doing that until your hand just flows. Some people first acquire precision then speed and others (me included) first go for speed and steadiness and then acquire the precision.
And after that keep writing by hand. It is hard to visualise something you don't do often enough.