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The plus side of drowning in final papers: because I can't work on my Yuletide, it makes me really want to work on my Yuletide! So much so that I . . . have been writing bits and pieces surreptitiously in my class notebooks when things get dull, um.

Here is the thing, though: it's been ages since I've hand-written anything besides notes, especially anything fictional. I actually can't remember the last time I've hand-written anything properly that wasn't an in-class final (and that was four years ago.) And it's weird! My brain seems to work differently when I don't have the option to go back and instantly delete, cut and paste, and rephrase stuff as I'm in the process of writing it, and by 'differently' I mean 'not as well'. Also there's the factor that when I'm hand-writing, my hands just don't go as fast as my brain can go, and so I keep having to hop back and remind myself what I was thinking. It's SUPER FRUSTRATING. It's impossible for me to imagine having to do all my writing by hand, having to go that slowly all the time, and not having the opportunity to go back and instantly self-edit and be constantly making it better. But of course up until recently that's what everyone did.

I don't know, someone must have written up the theory about how typing does different things to your brain than hand-writing does. And I know some of you prefer to hand-write! I would love to hear if you guys have thoughts about this.

I have a poll over on LJ about it, so go over there to vote!