I don't think I'd describe my hand position as a claw. My wrist is straight but my hand wrests above the line of text and the pencil meets the paper at basicall

I don't think I'd describe my hand position as a claw. My wrist is straight but my hand wrests above the line of text and the pencil meets the paper at basically a "north-west" angle. If some people write at a more extreme angle than that, I agree that sounds like a recipe for a bad time.