Write By Hand
When I was at a writer’s conference last week, I talked to three other professional writers at length and it was interesting what emerged. Each of us writes by hand. D., one of the writers, a screenplay guy, said, “Yeah if I’m on the computer I just start editing.”
You can’t write and edit at the same time. You’ll drive yourself nuts. You may never get to your best stuff.
At this same writer’s conference, I talked with forty students. Each of them wrote on the computer. Every single one.
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Yikes. Maybe it’s different with poetry, but I find I absolutely CANNOT start writing a poem on a computer. I have to longhand it. In black ink. On a big blank sheet of lined paper. How else am I going to break my delete-key habit and just let the words go?