[talldatethrow]

I'm also left handed and this was never an issue for me. You hold the pencil out from your fingers thus your hand is sitting slightly below the line that is being written, traveling over unused paper constantly.

Only people that do that weird claw thing have that problem.

[Teever]

The trade off is that you have less visibility of the letters you just wrote, which can be annoying sometimes and lead to spelling mistakes.

[JodieBenitez]

Yes, that's why we did the "weird claw thing" aforementioned.

Anyway, no more handwriting these days...

[jstanley]

What's the claw thing?

[beAbU]

Some lefties look as if they are wrapping half their bodies around the pen/cil when writing.

I also do not write like this, smudging fresh ink as I write has never been an issue for me.

[portaouflop]

I did the weird claw thing, worked for me