Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it.
By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
I write longhand; I make changes longhand, and I have an assistant who types it up. She lives 70 yards away. Every afternoon, I have a case I leave out on the porch, and she brings it back the next morning.
Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
Readers who claim a preference for short-form over long often tell me it's because they don't have time to commit to a book-length chunk of writing.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.