The Techie and the Fountain Pen

[griffinwords]

I love my computers, and my fancy "cloud computing" magic. I love Scrivener, especially. Love my iPad too.

But I'm trying something different. First drafts created with a fountain pen, longhand, on good paper. This is how I used to always do it, up until a year or so ago. It's just so fast and convenient to draft right in Scrivener. But maybe fast and convenient aren't best, at least not right now.

Scribbled handwriting, and ink on my fingertips. The words feel different this way.

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This is something I used to do all the time, in fact several of the stories I'm just now finishing up were started longhand.

I'm a very fast typist so it's very tempting to do first drafts at the computer, but I'm trying some different approaches to voice and thus writing more slowly anyway.

I envy writers who can dictate into a little voice recorder and have somebody else type it all up... then make revisions by hand, and somebody else types those in, too.