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27 – Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?
Most of my writing is done sitting on my couch. Occasionally I move to my desk, when it's not hugely piled with stuff, or to the kitchen table, and occasionally I manage to take my laptop to bed and don't completely lose momentum and read fic until I fall asleep, but mainly I write while sitting on my couch. Usually sideways, facing west.
For me a piece of writing isn't "real" until it's on the computer. Anything I do longhand is just a first try--which means that writing longhand often is easier and often is really helpful, because I can get myself unstuck sometimes by lowering the wall, lowering the stakes, telling myself, well, it's just on paper, it's just a first try. And then even if what I write down is totally wrong, I'm that much closer to figuring out what I do want to do. And even when I'm comparatively close to what I want in a paper draft, things get tweaked a lot as I type them up. So I do longhand writing when I'm epically stuck, or when I'm away from my own computer but have paper and a pen handy, but then it has to be on my computer before it's really written.
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Most of my writing is done sitting on my couch. Occasionally I move to my desk, when it's not hugely piled with stuff, or to the kitchen table, and occasionally I manage to take my laptop to bed and don't completely lose momentum and read fic until I fall asleep, but mainly I write while sitting on my couch. Usually sideways, facing west.
For me a piece of writing isn't "real" until it's on the computer. Anything I do longhand is just a first try--which means that writing longhand often is easier and often is really helpful, because I can get myself unstuck sometimes by lowering the wall, lowering the stakes, telling myself, well, it's just on paper, it's just a first try. And then even if what I write down is totally wrong, I'm that much closer to figuring out what I do want to do. And even when I'm comparatively close to what I want in a paper draft, things get tweaked a lot as I type them up. So I do longhand writing when I'm epically stuck, or when I'm away from my own computer but have paper and a pen handy, but then it has to be on my computer before it's really written.
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