In the olden days, I used to handwrite into an A4 – exercise book from school. I eventually bought an Olympus typewriter – very analogue but at the time the only mechanical device I could afford (computers were still fairly expensive in 1995! Difficult to imagine today).
This didn’t hinder my writing. There is in fact a great advantage to be had from handwriting into notebooks: they can be taken anywhere and serve as an ad-hoc surface for noting down thoughts.
Writing on a computer has never had the same appeal to either of the above methods. Word processing software connotes 9-5 office work, and was seemingly invented to draft dull pieces of efficient communication meant to generate specific responses. Opening Word, it places me by default into this context.
Hence, I’ve been looking for writing software. I remembered that a few years ago, my friend Maciej pointed me towards Writer’s Cafe, a
powerful but simple to use story development tool that dramatically accelerates the creation and structuring of your novel or screenplay.
I searched for it again and downloaded it a few days ago. I’ll use it (for the first time) next week when I’ll be on annual leave for a week. I want to write (= start and complete) this first, new story, about my former downstairs neighbour and her partner, the wife beater.
How to be Happy 
“In the olden days, I used to handwrite into an A4 – exercise book from school. I eventually bought an Olympus typewriter – very analogue but at the time the only mechanical device I could afford (computers were still fairly expensive in 1995! Difficult to imagine today).
This didn’t hinder my writing. There is in fact a great advantage to be had from handwriting into notebooks: they can be taken anywhere and serve as an ad-hoc surface for noting down thoughts.
Writing on a computer has never had the same appeal to either of the above methods. ”
I still handwrite any first draft on A5 notebooks… and I can type with ten fingers (that’s why I went from the typewriter to the computer, at least it formats the text on the page itself, and it’s good for cutting and pasting when revising instead of retyping…)! But pen on paper… won’t miss on that! 😀