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I still do a lot of outlining and almost all of my first drafts by hand.
It is definitely "slower" but I find the words just tend to flow a lot more freely and, to me at least, the quality of the writing tends to be better.
I think there is something liberating about the simplicity of the process. I slip into "just write it mode" instead of trying to edit and write at the same time.
I tend to lots of quick little edits while typing into the PC.
And then I do almost all of my editing in pen--I print out the manuscript, mark up my changes (sometimes very specific corrections, sometimes a note to self that "this section is crap, fix it" or "elaborate here") and then go enter the corrections in the word processing file.
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