In a comment yesterday, Becki wrote: “Wanted to pass something on that I heard an author mention at a presentation the end of July. She was asked how she wrote–by hand, or computer. She said that she wrote by hand. She found that the computer interrupted the flow with grammar/spell checks. Everytime she stopped to correct, she lost that bit of concentration. Recently I’ve had situations where I wrote by hand & discovered she might be correct. Then, I edit as I type that section into the computer. Thought it was interesting I and wanted to pass it on.”
Thanks! I love to hear about the process that others use.
Moleskine Small Plain Notebook Writing Journals Book I like small notebooks like this with an elastic band to mark my place. I go back to writing by hand when I get stuck. Sometimes, when I’m trying to generate new ideas, it helps, too.
Writers support good causes and Sara Holmes is taking note of them all.
Unabridged is Charlesbridge Publisher’s blog. I haven’t seen this one before.
The 2007 Mythopoeic Award for Children’s Literature goes to Catherine Fisher for
Corbenic. This is a Fisher King story. Haven’t read it yet, but it sounds interesting. Anyone else seen it?
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I’m going to take this as a sign that I’m on the right track – yesterday I decided that I could be more focussed on the first draft if I wrote it by hand – thus staying away from the internet and distractions!
I googled to see who does this and came across a comment by Mike Shea and he mentioned using Moleskine
and I also found out that Neil Gamain writes his first drafts by hand in Moleskine notebooks.
I’ll probably skip the Moleskine and use other notbooks but I’ll definitely work on writing the first draft by hand. =)