I finished the first draft of my young adult novel this month. I have a long way to go but the bones are there, and it feels good. This first draft is quite different compared to the first draft of my memoir, Back on the Court, mainly because a majority of that draft was written by hand. It seems crazy now, but I did like putting actual pen to paper.
I couldn’t cut and paste and adjust words, thoughts and paragraphs with ease like I can on a computer, but I could pick up the papers and feel them and then spread them on the floor, look at them, and move them around until they fit where they belonged. I liked seeing and organizing the madness. Recently, I found pictures from that time, so many years ago, when I escaped to a cabin on the Washington coast and gathered all the bits and pieces of my writing and pulled them together. It’s hard to imagine doing it that way again, but somehow it worked and I managed to take that rough draft and create a book.
Do you like to write on your computer or on good old-fashioned paper?
WRITING PROMPT #1: When I write by hand…
WRITING PROMPT #2: When I write on my computer…
WRITING PROMPT #3: Bailey sat down at her computer just as…
