Simple Question

[sylv_]

Do you compose best with a pen and paper or typing at a computer?

I suspect I do better with a pen and paper but that turns it into a two-step process and I'll often think "Maybe I shouldn't write any more until I type up the bulk of it in word" and that always, always leads to stalls.

How about all of you?

Comments

[katzedecimal]

Me, at the comp. I type very quickly, so I can just start channeling the characters and let them flow out my fingertips. My hands cramp quickly if I try to write, so I'd lose the flow really fast.

(BTW, are you at Calgary Expo this year? If so, I'll be there on the Sunday, Apr. 27; I've a performance on the 26th, so if you're going on the Saturday, sorry to miss you ^__^ )

[sylv_]

I'm sort of on the fence about Calgary. On one hand this time a bunch of friends from Edmonton are going, on the other there's no guests I'm really burning to see this year.

[themck]

Do it. It will be awesome.

We'll get George Takei to autograph rums, both spiced and regular.

[katzedecimal]

Hee hee, there's an idea XD Me, I'm gonna give Mark Waid hell for what he did to Brainiac 5 ^_^

[blown_lightbulb]

[waves hi]

I usually write better when I have pen and paper. If I type on the computer I end up focusing more on getting the absolute perfect phrasing/grammar/spelling/etc instead of the whole idea I'm trying to portray. So pen and paper is what I write the initial composing on, and then I transfer everything to word to fix anything that I missed and arrange things to flow better.

[themck]

I tend to write on whatever comes to hand first - Usually paper, though a big part the reason I like my laptop so much is the convenient Wordpad. (The rest of the reasons ilike my laptop, alas, are pretty countercreative). I never have the concern that I shouldn't write any more down - I'll keep expanding until I run out of ideas or paper, then when I put it on the computer I can edit out what sucks and write more about what I missed the first time.

So I guess I reccomend you carry bigger paper?

[ivica]

I tend to go with pen and paper. If I'm on my laptop I'll just end up distracting myself, so it's saved for final drafts. I also carry around a little book for idea-scribbling with me at all times. Handy.

[raxxius]

Planning and sketching ideas - pen and paper. I just don't find any sort of flow from a computer.

Actual writing - computer. I absolutely hate transferring written drafts since I usually seem to start writing in something approaching ancient sanskrit.