Pen or PC?

[Trombonus]

So what method of writing do you guys prefer? I've been trying to write on the computer, but I'm almost never happy with it. However, I've noticed that my writing gets much better when I do it by hand. Thoughts?

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I can't write longhand anymore... too slow. I type 90 wpm, and that still doesn't keep up with my brain (but almost!)

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I tried writing longhand once, but I couldn't read it so...

 

[Antfarmer77]

Pen, but ultimately, if I want to post or submit, it's the PC

 

[Trombonus]

Pen, but ultimately, if I want to post or submit, it's the PC

Well yeah, I mean you have to. I'll write it out first, then rewrite it on the computer. This also helps me catch gramatical/spelling errors, and allows me to edit my content as well. I'm much MUCH less likely to do that if I do it straight to computer. I'm lazy.

 

[neonflux]

Would have preferred one more choice as none of those offered quite fit...

There are points during my writing - usually at the beginning of a project, particularly a poem but actually anything of a personal, emotive nature - when I need to write in pen. When I begin to organize what I've written, to structure it, to play with the language, I can only do that efficiently on a computer (Mac if you please! )

 

[TheeGoatPig]

My handwriting stinks.

I like to self-edit as I write.

I could never do essays or book reports, or term papers in school because I just wasn't any good with a type writer or with a pen. I failed almost every creative writing project I ever did.

Now that I have a computer at the office and at home, I am writing all of the time. I write down stories, storie ideas, song ideas, lyrics, basic character developement, building designs (I work for an architectural firm, it isnt writing, but it's creative and I thought I would include it), and sometimes I just type out a quick line that I think will be useful later on, even though I don't have a story to go with it.

The computer has greatly helped my writing. Without it, I would be an artist with no outlet.
(not entirely true, I used to be a sketch artist, but I don't have any desk space since I graduated high school)

 

[Pixelsized]

On the computer. My handwriting is so bad even I can't read it sometimes.

 

[arienette]

Both! I usually write things down first in a notebook (mind you, I primarily write poetry so it isn't like I'm writing The Great American novel or anything in a notebook) and then transfer it to the computer, where I keep virtually everything I've written -- Notebooks and journals get thrown away after completion because I'm paranoid and don't trust them to be left lying around under the nose of others.

 

[TxRad]

pen or pencil.... no way... after ten minutes i can't even read it....

Did some stories eons ago on a type writer.... You know, one of those keyboards that actually slapped the shit out of a piece of paper... I wonder what ever happened to those? The stories not the type writers, ya perverts.....

The Pc.... Oh yeah, ever since i first got one, I've written my ass off.... some of it was even worth reading later....

 

[oggbashan]

On a PC ever since I had my first wordprocessor back in the early 1970s.

My handwriting has always been bad. That is one of the disadvantages of being ambidextrous (or ambisinistrous 'useless with either hand' as my PE teacher described me). I used to dictate to a dictation machine because my secretary could never transcribe my scrawl.

Og

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Old-fashioned pencil for me.

 

[damppanties]

Would have preferred one more choice as none of those offered quite fit...

There are points during my writing - usually at the beginning of a project, particularly a poem but actually anything of a personal, emotive nature - when I need to write in pen. When I begin to organize what I've written, to structure it, to play with the language, I can only do that efficiently on a computer (Mac if you please! )

Ditto.

I like seeing what I write, with the scratches and the cut-outs and the flowing f or y or t. But I haven't done that for the past two years.

Writing on paper is strictly for poetry. I am not that sentimental about a story, so I don't need to see it written. A story flows easily on a computer and is easier to copy/paste and edit.

 

[Liar]

I'm so out of practice with handwriting that if I write anything longer than a page by pen, I get so tense my wrist starts to cramp.

 

[cloudy]

Most of the time I write with the computer, but I've found that if I'm really blocked for whatever reason, sometimes the block dissolves if I revert to writing the old fashioned way....pen and paper.

Then I can get back to the PC.

 

[rgraham666]

I have a minor motor control problem. So my handwriting and my typing skills both suck big time.

At least with a computer, mistakes are easy to fix.

So computer only for me.

Except for an idea notebook. Which is difficult for me to read.