My recognition is far superior to my writing, I spent about a month a few months ago shoring things up and I reached 4th grade before I sorta burned out for a while. My handwriting is absolute garbage but I see improvements in the stuff I've written over the years to being more fluid even if a native speaker would still my writing sucks. I know utilizing Japanese sources is basically impossible when starting, but the Japanese kanji dictionary I linked before has a lot of good resources even for a visual aspect like stroke order. One other thing I'd sorta emphasize while you're still relatively fresh to things is picking up radicals, even a little bit helps a bunch because suddenly you're looking at the characters in a different light and once you learn a bunch of components it's more like putting things together rather than remembering this giant character.

A super simple example is 木 meaning tree which then turns into 林 which is like a small bunch of trees like you'd see around property lines in more rural areas in America/a grove if that makes more sense, then you have 森 which is forest. 晴れ (clear weather) is 日 (sun) and 青 (blue) which is relatively simple to remember by thinking sunny and blue skies.