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There's a method for left handed writing which avoids this problem, without wrist strain: simply holding the page at 90 degrees, and writing vertically.

Alas, I wasn't taught it while neuroplastic, and have been unable to get the hang of it. I regret that my teachers were clueless about the peculiarities of lefthandedness, but at least I'm not of the era when it would have been beaten out of me.

I'm left handed and I use Parker Quink ink in my fountain pens exactly because it dries fast and thus I don't smudge often (though I will smudge if I write super fast).

That's fair! I'm right-handed myself, and while I've seen a few articles that purport to offer methods that can work for southpaws, the impression I've come away with is that it's as much a matter of luck as of anything else.