I do a lot of my drafting longhand, in cheap spiral notebooks. I started doing that last winter, when I began this new job and the only morning writing time I could find was on the bus -- I could swing a notebook in that scenario, but not a laptop. And then the pandemic hit and I was suddenly working from home. I kept up the longhand because it was a respite from the narrowness of living my entire life through this one computer screen. All through the pandemic, pen and paper has been a rock and a comfort. If nothing else, it's now a physical cue for my storywriting brain to kick in, and suddenly I'm somewhere else, dealing with imaginary people and their imaginary problems. It's lovely. When I try to write on the computer nowadays, I'm not having NEARLY that kind of success at switching brainspaces.
At least weekly, I try to make the time to type up (and heavily revise) my longhand. I do that into google docs, because I can get to those files from work computers as well as home computers. I have between one to three files for any given story: the story itself, a file of deleted bits, and a file of notes (research, outlines, discussions with my cheerleader/betas.)
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Date: 2020-11-03 03:49 pm (UTC)At least weekly, I try to make the time to type up (and heavily revise) my longhand. I do that into google docs, because I can get to those files from work computers as well as home computers. I have between one to three files for any given story: the story itself, a file of deleted bits, and a file of notes (research, outlines, discussions with my cheerleader/betas.)
Checkin for the 2nd: page of longhand!