When I started writing fiction -- sometime in the Cretacacious -- I thought I had to use a typewriter (remember those?) if I wanted to be a real writer, but it didn't work out. I then wrote everything by hand, using ballpoints that I snitched from my employers (or motel giveaways). They didn't do any better.
When computers and word processors appeared I started short things on them, but the 'big stuff' needed to be written by hand for the Che to flow back up from the paper to my brain (or whatever). Today I can barely write a legible grocery list by hand. I'd be lost trying to write without a word processor (but not any old word processor). I started with Wordstar (remember that?) and graduated to Word Perfect, which I still use although it was degraded by Microsoft when they bought into the company. I have Open Office, but would never dare to create on it -- and don't even think of Word -- that was created for lawyer's offices.
The moral. Start writing with whatever is comfortable and don't be surprised if the medium takes over from there.
Christopher Hoare
The Iskander series – Arrival, Deadly Enterprise, The Wildcat’s Victory, The Wildcat's Burden
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