The worst thing about writing something long-hand

[lyssie]

Aside from the cramp in your fingers, is when you decide to go back to it and find that you don't know where the notes are, or even if you actually wrote the scenes you think you did (or just did that whole visualizing and promising to write it down later thing).

I'm annoyed by this, because I could swear that I had some of the "UNIT shows up" stuff written for the Doctor Who/Lost Girl crossover. But I'm finding nada, and that is cranky-making.

(it means I have to re-create my OCs from scratch. *disgruntled*)

Comments

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

You'll find it all in another notebook a month from now.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I hope so. I have this feeling there's quite bit of loose paper unaccounted for as of yet (at least some of it's been organized).

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I don't think I would be physically capable of writing fic longhand anymore!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It only happens in the direst of emergencies (like at work, when I have the perfet scene in my head)

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

I'm always amazed at how different my writing is on paper than it is on a computer. Maybe because I write more slowly on paper, and it's a more tactile sensation?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I have a bad tendency to skip words and description if I'm writing by hand. Typing, I have all the time in the word to explode vast swathes of hyperbole. But my fingers don't like writing long, flowery sentences.

This is not always a good thing, though. Many's a fic I've had to make up half a scene because all I managed to write was the dialogue. Or two sentences of "this happens, then that happens, explosion"