![]() ![]() This is the part of the brain that sees in pictures. As you write, your letters turn into words and sentences, but the act of putting ink to paper activates the right hemisphere of your brain. To your brain, writing by hand feels more like making art.ĭrawing the letter B is making a mark with your hand. Handwriting allows this to happen more readily. You’re exploring – and that means turning off critical analysis. When you’re writing a first draft, you don’t know if what you’re writing is any good or not – you simply don’t have access to that judgment at this stage. They are your material! Taking them away is cruel, and makes creative work harder than it has to be. When you are writing a first draft, divining your story as you go, you need these markers to guide your subconscious. Even if you scratch out a sentence, the remains of that sentence are still there on the page their presence affects the next sentence you write, and the sentences after that. Writing by hand creates a map of your explorations. When the deleted sentence disappears from the page it disappears from your consciousness. When you press delete on the computer, you erase your tender ideas before they even have a chance to take root. It’s too easy to edit yourself brutally when you’re typing on a screen. They’re all important, but honestly, the last one is the kicker. Here are my three reasons for writing by hand ( check out some more benefits here). And an hour’s worth of scribbling on a page in blue ink doesn’t hold nearly the same crispness and efficacy of a double-spaced page of sentences set in Times New Roman. A whole page of handwriting only comes to about half a page of typing once you transcribe it. Making time to write by hand can be tough. ![]()
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