As you see from the title, this post will be about pros and cons of handwriting and typing, while writing your book, as well as which programs are useful for this process.
The pros of typing are that it will be faster and easier, without hurting your arm and it saves the trees that are made into the paper.
The cons of typing is:
- you can see the mistakes,
- when you delete it, it is harder to see the previous version later.
The positives of handwriting are that you can take a notebook with you and write anywhere, without it running out of battery.
The negative of handwriting your book is that your arm will hurt after a while and that it would be possible that you can't read after yourself.
I use the two in combination. I handwrite because it doesn't show mistakes that I have made and I type because it is faster.
For handwriting I use a notebook that has graph paper because I write small letters and I used to type in word document, but now I use Scrivener.
I started using Scrivener this July and let me tell you it is amazing if you have an outline. You can write the outline onto the flashcards and into the scene documents so, when you start to write a new scene, at the top you already have what needs to happen, which prevents the block.
I handwrite because if I want to change something I can put the other stuff into parenthesis so, I later return to it if I want.
I realized that if I write in Scrivener, there is a higher possibility that I will just rewrite an older paragraph then write a new one and that doesn't happen with my handwriting.
Later I retype the handwritten words and add a new ones or rewrite it differently.
Comment what method you prefer and if you have a different one.
With love, Misha.
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