Should I type or handwrite my draft?
It’s that age old question: to type or handwrite? I’ve done both and they each have their pros and cons. Let’s take a look at why you might want to try both:
Writing By Hand
Ah…Back in the good old days before computers and smartphones were invented (or, you know, if you happen to be a wizard that goes to Hogwarts), people wrote things out by hand. For most of us blessed with the use of computers, it’s a lot faster to type that to handwrite things, so why would you choose to write out your draft?
This blog post was drafted by hand and I’m writing out my current work-in-progress novel as well. What’s so great about writing by hand? For one, excuses for not writing like “I don’t have time to wait for my computer to turn on” or “I’m out…
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I finished a whole manuscript by hand before I typed it all out and sent it to my editor.
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Before I went blind I wrote everything by hand now I’m sort of forced to type and I really miss the freedom of taking a pen and paper with me wherever I go now I have to rely on my smart phone and regularly want to kill Siri
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Working on my first novel, I wrote the whole manuscript by hand before I typed it all up and sent it to my editor.
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As a teenager, I wrote all my stories and ideas into notebooks with flower prints on their covers. I still have a weird little fetish for those. Back then, I didn´t even have a computer. The alternative to handwriting was an old typewriter, where your fingers could get painfully stuck between keys when your aim failed. By now, I do most of my writing on the computer, although I still obsessively buy pretty notebooks, which continue to serve me for outlining spontaneous ideas. The big pros I find about using a computer are the ease with which I can insert or move about entire passages without creating a mess, and the possibility of producing as many backup copies as are necessary to calm my rampant paranoia. On the other hand, good old paper continues to function even in the case of electricity blackouts and deceased hard drives. There is pros and cons to everything, after all.
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I didn’t say they weren’t pros and cons it’s just that it’s harder for the notebook to fail then your computer and you can always transfer your work to the computer and arrange all of your passages the way you like them then. I never raise any of my work I always just keep writing if I decide I want to write something a different way I just put a squiggly line and then move down and write it over again although I’m not really hand writing these days because I am visually impaired and honestly it’s a wonder anyone can read anything I write.
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