Tareas

write by hand.
I know: it’s messy, and it takes a longer. A whole page of handwriting only comes to about half a page of typing once you transcribe it. Handwriting can look sloppy and unclear. Andan hour’s worth of scribbling on a page in blue ink doesn’t hold nearly the same crispness and efficacy of a double-spaced page of sentences set in Times New Roman.
And yet.
Here are my three reasonsfor writing by hand. They’re all important, but honestly, the last one is the kicker.
1. It’s too easy to edit yourself brutally when you’re typing on a screen.
When you press delete on thecomputer, you erase your tender ideas before they even have a chance to take root.  When the deleted sentence disappears from the page it disappears from your consciousness.
Writing by hand creates a map ofyour explorations. Even if you scratch out a sentence, the remains of that sentence are still there on the page; their presence affects the next sentence you write, and the sentences after that. Whenyou are writing a first draft, divining your story as you go, you need these markers to guide your subconscious. They are your material! Taking them away is cruel, and makes creative work harder thanit has to be.
When you’re writing a first draft, you don’t know if what you’re writing is any good or not – you simply don’t have access to that judgment at this stage. You’re exploring – and thatmeans turning off critical analysis. Handwriting allows this to happen more readily.
2. To your brain, writing by hand feels more like making art.
Drawing the letter B is making a mark with yourhand. As you write, your letters turn into words and sentences, but the act of putting ink to paper activates the right hemisphere of your brain. This is the part of the brain that sees in pictures.
Trythis: on a blank piece of paper, write a list of words that start with the letter “B.” Write the words very slowly, as they come to you. Print them in all capital letters, or make your cursive...