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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
I write slowly and get distracted a lot.
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.
I always write my first draft in longhand, in lined notebooks. I move around the house, sitting where I like, and watch the words spool out in front of me, actually taking a lot of pleasure in the way they look in my strange handwriting on the page.
Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.