I completely agree! I would always find myself getting stuck trying to type. When I switched to handwriting, I finished my first novel in a couple months and am now halfway through the second (a story idea that came to me when a Green Day song randomly popped into my head while driving down an empty stretch of highway with the kids asleep in the back). I don't even touch a computer until the first draft is complete. Inspiration always seems to come easiest when you are alone with your thoughts, or lack thereof, and something is lost when the pen is replaced by a keyboard (for me, at least).
That's my main activity at Study Hall: Transcribing from my longhand notes to Word on my laptop. As I key each page into a file I savor the act of crossing out the scribbled notebook page. So satisfying.
That's why the notebook. Take it to the gym. Keep it in the bathroom, your mind goes places while you take a shower. Keep it in your car.
I completely agree! I would always find myself getting stuck trying to type. When I switched to handwriting, I finished my first novel in a couple months and am now halfway through the second (a story idea that came to me when a Green Day song randomly popped into my head while driving down an empty stretch of highway with the kids asleep in the back). I don't even touch a computer until the first draft is complete. Inspiration always seems to come easiest when you are alone with your thoughts, or lack thereof, and something is lost when the pen is replaced by a keyboard (for me, at least).
That's my main activity at Study Hall: Transcribing from my longhand notes to Word on my laptop. As I key each page into a file I savor the act of crossing out the scribbled notebook page. So satisfying.