Greetings and salutations everyone! How is everyone doing today? I am doing well(health wise). Today I would like to cover the topic of difference. What exactly is the difference between Writing a book by hand and Typing one up on your computer or phone? Well this Portion of my post is my own opinion but if you want to skip this part you can just scroll down to the portions where I explain the research I’ve done on both and why I personally feel that writing by hand is way better.
For me writing by hand is like riding a bike. It was the first thing I learned that actually proved useful in life! Typing can be a bit annoying at times especially when you have to worry about that stupid spelling error you made and the computer won’t let you ignore it! 😣 Then there is Typing on the phone.😏 I kind of sometimes prefer to type on my phone. I won’t lie about that. It’s how I am able to write this post today. Anywho the point is that with writing by hand I have a free flowing of my thoughts and feelings going right into my works as a writer.
When I hold a laptop(btw I got rid of my laptop for this reason!) It’s not exactly light weight and it’s kind of bulky. It takes a lot of time to charge when you really need to get your work done,and can easily crash causing you to have to start everything all over again!
Writing by hand doesn’t have as much of the same issues. But all it requires is paper and pen! Perhaps even a space to work? I’ll give you some points for thinking about all the cons to writing by hand. A lot of trees die from having to use do much paper to write a single rough draft of a novel. I’m guessing roughly around 80 to 90 pages maybe? As someone who sucks at math,im pretty sure that my calculations are far from correct but I have been doing my best!
Now aside from the trees writing by hand can kill,there are quite a few other issues with it as well. For example finding a suitable place to store all the paper after its been written on! How about having a place to sit without a heaping pile of paper taking up so much space it is almost suffocating!?!😓😕. I didn’t just freak out.
Now back to the topic of typing the novels. This time I am covering the positive aspects of typing up a novel. If you’re using a laptop or desktop computer, it can be very useful to continuously store your work on a USB just in case your computer decided”it’s a rainy day. I’ll start smoking and stop working.” you have a backup!😉
It would probably be a good idea for me to get into sharing my findings on how many currently published authors prefer to write by hand or type their books right?
According to a poll I recently posted on Twitter, over 60% of the authors online prefer to use paper and pen over computers or phones! 20% used phones ,and the other 20% used laptops or both writing and Typing. That is quite an amazing amount of people!
Nanami's writing life 