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Writing vs. Typing

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blgarver:

--- Quote from: Seidmadr on February 14, 2013, 02:34:38 PM ---I'd like to throw a stick in here that is semi-related to the discussion at hand. It's mostly semantics, sure, but it is a point my friends and I have argued.

If you — in the sense of fairness I'll not use any of the discussed words — put words down on a smartphone or tablet, or any other interface with a touchscreen... Do you write, or do you type?

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I would say it's typing.  On a related note, the author Peter V. Brett supposedly wrote The Warded Man on a blackberry during his daily commute.  I find that pretty impressive.

Gilitine_Memitim:
I like to hand write things first just to get a sense of the tone and basics of the story then I add in the things I feel I missed the first time while typing it up.

Dresdenus Prime:

--- Quote from: Quantus on February 14, 2013, 02:31:41 PM ---I think it has a lot to do with the presence of a backspace key.  Im not a natural speller, but bad spelling often derails my thought process.  So when I can immediately fix my errors with a few twitches and move on I can keep my mental momentum

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The backspace key is my worst enemy. When I sit at a computer to write, I have easily wound up stuck on one-two page/s simply due to the fact that it's way too easy to delete or edit things. I'll second guess words, phrases or even scenes then start changing it up and then I get stuck.

Personally for me, as I've said before, for whatever reason I can allow myself to be messy with handwritten documents. Then I feel more satisfied with the typed up version since I was able to change things as I transfered the story.

I envy people who can sit and type up an entire first draft of a book without going back and trying to fix things immediately.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: Dresdenus Prime on February 14, 2013, 05:19:42 PM ---I envy people who can sit and type up an entire first draft of a book without going back and trying to fix things immediately.

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Not a vital skill for a professional career, sfaict; so far as that goes, being able to produce a good novel a year is primary and the method is secondary.

I have always favoured correcting a sentence that comes out wrong immediately, and reading through and correcting my last week's output as the first thing I do before starting into the next bit.  A couple of years ago I had a bit of a phase shift in how I do larger-scale edits, though, which is more about seeing structural things earlier than anything else; the kind of major pacing shift that I would previously have needed to complete a draft and let it sit for six months to be able to see, I am now often able to see two-thirds of the way through, and fixing it before continuing appears to be a better mode for me.

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