Comments on: Where do you write?

By: Lynne DuMae

Lynne DuMae — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:01:25 +0000

I’ve written both ways. Sometimes it helps to change things up a bit. When I write on my computer, I usually just sit on the couch or my bed with my laptop in my lap. I have the TV on in the background, but most of the time I don’t pay much attention to it. I actually get the most done when I go into the Divas chatroom and do the writing challenges. It keeps me motivated.

By: Catherine Spencer

Catherine Spencer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:20:50 +0000

I really like writing longhand, and back when I was balancing writing with a ddj, I would never go to work without my notebook. And with the sloooow progress I’m making on my current WIP, I think I might have to go back to it because it gets everything out of my head once, then when I go back to type it, I think what comes out is much, much stronger. The problem is, of course, I can get it out in type much faster than I can with longhand, so when the ideas are flowing, it can get annoying and my hand can cramp. Oh to have that problem these days!

By: B.E. Sanderson

B.E. Sanderson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:48:41 +0000

With my WIP, I realized I had to throw out everything I wrote and start over. After axing 30K words I was stuck, so I picked up my handy-dandy notebook and started scribbling the story to get past the block. Now I’ve written three chapters longhand. Writing the old fashioned way doesn’t suck half as bad as I thought, and after I get each chapter written out, I type it into the computer. The block is gone as long as I’m writing longhand, and the words coming out are awesome. Here’s hoping I don’t have to write the whole book that way, though. My hands couldn’t take it.