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havocthecat ([personal profile] havocthecat) wrote in [community profile] journalsandplanners2024-04-24 08:23 am

Writing with pen and paper - is it better than typing?

Writing SFF With Paper and Pen Spurs Memory and Creativity by R.J. Huneke

While the article has a SFF focus because it's written for the SFWA blog, it's really also about general handwriting and whether it's better. It links to studies and articles on handwriting vs typing.

Personally, I turn to handwriting fic in a notebook when I'm trying to break out of writers block. It's a change of format, for one, and for another, I do then stop getting tempted to scroll through whatever social media site I've got loaded. Also, I do just like handwriting fiction.

So this is definitely a biased site for handwriting because it's [community profile] journalsandplanners - but really, we're all on Dreamwidth. What do you think?


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