Authors, what do you prefer digital writing (typing) or writing on paper (pen)?

[Ral_062]

For me. When i write something, i usually start with writing in a piece of paper very roughly and when i eventually finish, i type it into computer.
To refine parts i didn't like or to add more details through the rough outline, remove parts, add different new scenes and etc.

I like both

 

[sadewolu]

I prefer typing all the way. Typing is more convenient and faster, and we're living in that day and age now, so we might as well get used to it.

 

[GwynLordofTinder]

I legit write everything on my phone like a full-on psychopath.

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

Writing on notebook to sort out my thoughts then type on computer.

 

[NotaNuffian]

My handwriting is atrocious.

My typing is slow.

But I do use typing more because phone.

 

[Eldoria]

My writing looks like a doctor's handwriting, I'll skip it and choose to type.

 

[Envylope]

I prefer typing.

 

[JayMark]

I like typing, because when I think a paragraph should be moved so the scene is less scatter brained, I don't have to rewrite it.

Unless it's on type writers. I'm done with that bullshit.

 

[CinnaSloth]

Writing on notebook to sort out my thoughts then type on computer.

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holy.. your writing is so pretty..

 

[Racosharko]

Pen and paper, always, all the time. From now to forever, my one true love.

 

[JayMark]

holy.. your writing is so pretty..

I think we had the same handwriting teacher.

This is sadly becoming a lost art because of bad education systems.

 

[Firestorm22345]

My writing looks like a doctor's handwriting, I'll skip it and choose to type.

Same as well, mate. But as I am master at typing even on small devices. I prefer digital writing but I still do handwriting to my tutor, which won't make me lose physical writing. But still, I write my novel with digital writing directly, no making plans in the notebook. Just having creative and memory library(I meant the brain).

 

[Tyranomaster]

Even at my prime of handwriting (in college), I preferred typing. I can type for pretty much all day. If I had to write for 90 minutes straight, my hand would be cramping to the point where I can't write for the rest of the day.

 

[Macha]

Legends write on clay tablets.

 

[Zagaroth]

No, if physical writing was my only choice, I would never write.

Pen and paper is physically painful for me, and always has been. Being gifted an electronic typewriter when I was in middle school was a life changer.

 

[Tyranomaster]

Legends write on clay tablets.

"I'll have to get the good clay and my fancy silver stylus for this line. It'll be so ??"

 

[OCQueen96]

I prefer writing my outline on paper, and I prefer actually writing the story digitally.

 

[CinnaSloth]

This is sadly becoming a lost art because of bad education systems.

Teachers I know (which are only like 16 that I regularly talk to) would love to teach things that aim more toward things kids would grow to use, but school boards, state rulings, and government have their own priorities, and pretty much demand things like Home ec, cooking, restaurant, accounting, and most of all art studies like woodworking, metalworking, or handwriting stay a thing of the past. They force teachers to stay out of the way of "industry" and get angry if Ai isn't part of the curriculum in some way. My friend got fired for giving zero credit on an assignment the child used Alexa and chatGpt/ Grok to write. They didn't even edit it to look like they wrote it. Then again, even if a kid fails all year and does none of the work they still get to graduate with the "no child left behind" rules that are in place. But parents would always point blame at teachers instead of the boards or government. At the end of the year 9 out of the 16 teachers I know are retiring because they're just tired of all the BS and the drama... It's not like they get to really teach anymore anyway. It's like.. just have ChatGPT teach the next generation of kids. That's pretty much what the world wants. and when I say "world" I mean the 1% (who can't seem to understand, without the other 99% of the world, THEY don't make money.. idiots...) UGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH......
Anyway. that's my nonsense rant.......................................................................

I like cute cursive handwriting. It's a dying art. So pretty!!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

My handwriting made writing anything but rough notes impossible; learning to type was a godsend and made it possible for me to write more than just notes.

 

[JayMark]

Even at my prime of handwriting (in college), I preferred typing. I can type for pretty much all day. If I had to write for 90 minutes straight, my hand would be cramping to the point where I can't write for the rest of the day.

I actually handwrite faster than I type. In college, I wrote all my lecture notes in binder notebooks by hand.