How do you write?

[Pigwidgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Scott" <insanus_scottus at y...> wrote:
> Out of curiosity I thought this would be an interesting question to 
> pose. I think that most people on this group probably write for 
some 
> reason or another...not necessarily HP fanfic.
> 
> My question is how do you write? Can you compose better at a 
computer 
> letting your fingers fly over the keys, or in a notebook scratching 
> erasing and marking things out with your pencil or pen?  Do you 
write 
> longhand or shorthand, inside or out, at night or in the 
morning...???
> 

I write using pen and ink mainly. I find it very difficult to compose 
anything straight onto a computer. Also I find my writing is more 
able to keep up with my mind than my typing. It is distracting to 
pause halfway through a passage, when you are in full flow, because 
someone has half inched the letter 'y' from your keyboard.

I usually write late into the night, but this is more to do with it 
fitting in better with everything I do rather than necessarily being 
the best time for me to write.

I write in my own version of shorthand. Based around a lot of 
mathematical symbols and then shortening of words that only I could 
consider.  Combined with my extremally unreadable handwriting it 
makes it impossible for anyone but me to actually know what I have 
written. 

The only problem with this method is it then leaves me to type it up 
at a later date. Which is one very boring task and puts me off most 
of the stories I have written.


Simon