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runawaywriter:
Every writer these days has a different method of recording their ideas. Most I've encountered prefer to type on a computer; they say it's a faster and simpler method of writing. As for me, I prefer to hand-write everything I do. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I feel like it gives me a deeper connection to the things I write. I think more about the wording, the subject, the characters, everything. Any time I try to write straight from the keyboard, I find it turns out... flat. Lifeless. Empty.

I guess the reason why I'm rambling this nonsense is that I'd like to get other writers' opinions on the matter.

So what are you? Typer or writer?

LizW65:
For many years I was a writer; not that I felt any more of a connection with the words, I was just convinced that I couldn't think in front of a keyboard. Not to mention, manual typewriters are bloody hard! Eventually I made the transition in the 1990's to first a daisy wheel word processor and then to a PC, and I gradually realized that the method didn't really matter. Now that I've fully transitioned to a laptop I wonder how I ever managed to write anything without it.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Writing by hand is too slow; I type significantly faster than I talk, and that keeps up with how I think much better.

shades of grey:
I do both, depending what is available.

I sometimes only note take when I write then flesh it out at the keyboard later.

Timeline:
I use a keyboard because it's faster and makes editing and sharing a breeze. Handwriting has a certain appeal to it, but that appeal isn't pronounced enough to overcome the pro's of a keyboard. For me, at least.

Full disclosure: I was raised in the digital age.

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