There is a correct way to write each Chinese character; the general rule is left to right, then top to bottom. Here's an example of the character for "eternal" I found on the internet:
Because I'm usually copying from text, I can't determine stroke order (also, I wouldn't really know it anyway) (also also, sometimes it doesn't make sense: see how 4 branches off of 5, yet 4 is, well, before 5?), so my strategy has been to write the longest lines first, then fill in the smaller ones. From adults this earns laughs; from children it earns me a lesson in writing the character properly.
It took me a while to understand why my writing got a reaction at all---as long as a person can read the character (which they can), who cares how I write it?
No one; it's just odd. It'd be like writing the word "arranged," "-ed" first, then adding the "-rr-", then both the "a"'s, and finishing by filling in the "-ng-". So odd.
Because I'm usually copying from text, I can't determine stroke order (also, I wouldn't really know it anyway) (also also, sometimes it doesn't make sense: see how 4 branches off of 5, yet 4 is, well, before 5?), so my strategy has been to write the longest lines first, then fill in the smaller ones. From adults this earns laughs; from children it earns me a lesson in writing the character properly.
It took me a while to understand why my writing got a reaction at all---as long as a person can read the character (which they can), who cares how I write it?
No one; it's just odd. It'd be like writing the word "arranged," "-ed" first, then adding the "-rr-", then both the "a"'s, and finishing by filling in the "-ng-". So odd.
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