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Craft 1 min read Eliza Marsh

Writing by hand, still

I draft everything by hand first. Not for any romantic reason β€” it's just that the keyboard is too fast for the part of me that does the actual thinking.

The pace

Handwriting is roughly a quarter the speed of typing. That gap is where the editing happens β€” the sentence has time to revise itself before it reaches the page.

The transcribe

Typing up a handwritten draft is a second pass disguised as data entry. Half the work of revision happens without you noticing.

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