I'm left handed, and was educated in a country where using a fountain pen is required until middle school (at least it was when I was growing up).
Every time there was a smudge on a piece of work, my 2nd grade teacher would tear it apart and make me do it all over again. I usually finished way before the other kids anyways, and even doing that I was still usually done before the others.
How did you achieve that? I ended up writing "overhand" (mirrored in the plane of the nib from the right-hand method), so the edge of my hand was always on top of the work. I ended up using blotter paper to avoid resting directly on the already-written ink.
> Every time there was a smudge on a piece of work, my 2nd grade teacher would tear it apart and make me do it all over again
Yeah, pretty much something like that. My hand tends to be higher above what I write, and I avoid contact with the paper as much as possible. I also use blotting paper.
Some inks dry faster too, so it's worth trying a few different ones.
I still mostly use a fountain pen for taking notes, which gets me a lot of weird looks at work (first for taking notes on paper, then because of the fountain pen).
Every time there was a smudge on a piece of work, my 2nd grade teacher would tear it apart and make me do it all over again. I usually finished way before the other kids anyways, and even doing that I was still usually done before the others.
I can write really neatly now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯