Why I still write everything by hand first
Every announcement, every policy update, every hard email I've had to send on this platform — first draft, on paper, pen. Then I type it up and it usually changes by half.
Typing invites editing before you've finished thinking. You backspace a sentence before you know if it was actually wrong. Paper doesn't let you do that — you keep moving forward, messy and unfiltered, and you find out what you actually think by the time you reach the bottom of the page.
It's slower. I don't recommend it for anything with a deadline in the next ten minutes. But for anything that matters — where the wording will outlive the moment — it's the only way I trust my first draft.
Related reading: The Complete Guide to Actually Finishing What You Write and Trouble Was: A Haunting Look at 1976 Through a Child's Eyes.
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Solid take. The specificity point especially.
Appreciate you writing this out — more platforms should be this transparent.
Appreciate you writing this out — more platforms should be this transparent.