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It sounds kind of silly but writing a book by hand is as useful today as it was 3000 years ago. Better, in fact, because now we use paper and pencils or self-feeding pens. Three thousand years ago they used tablets and chisels or animal skins and quill pens.
And as silly as it sounds writing by hand has a number of advantages.
It’s a skill that most of us have practiced for most of our lives. It’s a skill that takes very little in the way of resources — a notebook or pad and a pencil or pen. It’s very inexpensive — literally only a couple of bucks. And it can be done anywhere — the waiting room of a doctor’s office, a local coffee shop, a local park.
Really it only has three disadvantages. If your writing is anything like mine, going back and actually reading it may prove problematic. Which is why in order to do anything with the manuscript you need to reformat or convert it to a computer-based form. Finally, in order to edit it you need also need to convert it to another form.
But there is an advantage that you might not think of. Because it is so hard to change and fix things, you will be less likely to go back. So getting the writing done is more likely. And getting lost in the editing maze is unlikely.
Then with a little thought, you can use the conversion process to perform your first verbal (non-structural) edit. And every edit helps!
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