Re: Slowing down

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Diem Marshall" <diem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Firstly, I write longhand. Now, Patricia said this would slow you down
physically (I think), for me that's not the case.

That's why I added the bit about "with your non-dominant hand, if
necessary." Unless you're ambidextrous or have already practiced, writing
with your left hand (if you're accustomed to using your right, or your right
if you're a leftie) is just about guaranteed to slow you down..

True.

I type quite quickly
but with a pen in my hand I can get a ferocious speed up and the words
for me always flow more smoothly with a pen. But - I still have to type
it up and with that process comes the change.

Yes; I know at least two writers who still do their first drafts in longhand
as a routine thing, and many who do notes or diagrams longhand, or who
revert to longhand when they're having trouble. And it's partly for this
reason -- having to input it to the computer provides a second
word-by-word-level pass.


Unless you get into a copy-trance. It's entirely possible to type up
without reading a single word of the original copy - luckily my
handwriting is usually so bad that I can't just remove my brain and let
the fingers do the work.

I should also have mentioned reading it aloud -- this doesn't actually slow
down the writing process itself, but once you have a first draft, it tends
to slow you down to the speed at which you can talk (which, for many
writers, is a good bit slower than they read, and sometimes slower than they
can compose in their heads). Again, this provides a chance to review things
on a word-by-word level. It's also really good for catching tongue-twisters
in dialog that read OK when you're reading, but that nobody who hadn't
practiced could actually just *say*.

Or unnecessarily long sentences - I've found myself running out of
breath reading some peoples' books. And it helps to spot repetition of
words too. Fifteen uses of 'preternatural' on a page, for example. :)

Patricia C. Wrede




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