With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much.
Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very different once I print it out.
I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.