Neil Gaiman on pens
Tuesday, 04 May, 2004
Neil Gaiman on pens (you'll have to scroll down a bit). I think it's interesting that he wrote this:
One reason I like writing by hand is it slows me down a little, but it also forces me to keep going: I'm never going to spend half a day noodling with a sentence to try and get it just right, if I'm using a pen. I'll do all that when I start typing.
Which partially answers my question about the whole writing/typing-first-draft thing but not whether handwriting actually makes you use more of the right side of your brain (don't know if that matters or not). In my experience, it hasn't made a difference.
(Oh, and I just had to pass on his link on the Devil Duckie.)
Blinks:
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Issues organised by tale.
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The other day I wrote a note to someone and found, after spending the bulk of my writing time via a keyboard, that I was getting impatient with how “long” it took my hand to form the letters. Then I stopped and thought, This isn’t right. I think that shaping the letters while handwriting is something of an art, an everyday art.
I like looking at other people’s handwriting too. Looking at handwritten draft manuscripts of old books is cool too.
Hmmm interesting question. I found in high school that it was too easy to write drivel while typing (because I type at over 80wpm) while writing was slower and therefore my words more carefully crafted and formed. It ended up that I did better in handwritten essays than ones I typed. But that’s just a sample size of one!
I like to type out my first draft with mistakes everywhere. Print it, get my red pen and draw all over it
Esp when I do Bible study, I like to do it on the poota first.