Write By Hand

Nov 8th, 2007 by admin in Hope, Writing

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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1 Comment

  • 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?