What is it about writing longhand that helps me think through my story at a deeper level than typing on the PC?
It’s almost like my story (only two pages old) took a massive twist down a different highway when I was too lazy to come get my laptop last night to write and instead wrote in my fave notebook. Scrawled out several pages, and when I opened it today to write (which includes reading over the previous day’s work), I was struck with how different the story now feels (in a better, deeper way) than it did on the laptop.
I wonder if we use different parts of the brain (and different kinds of creativity) when we write with different modalities (handwritten vs. typed). I’d be curious to see if other writers think this happens too or if I’m just floating around in Bethieworld again…
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