write on a computer or in a notebook

Since I started using a computer for writing articles years ago, I slowly drifted away from writing on paper. It's so much easier and faster for me to put down my thoughts using a keyboard than tiring my hand by using a pen. The downside is, at times when my computer needs to be repaired and I have pressing article deadlines, I am forced to write by hand. And I am finding it more and more difficult because it's harder to edit your work when your draft is written on paper.

This may sound weird, but words just seem to flow out of my fingers when I'm writing on the computer; but I often go blank when I try to write with pen and paper.

I find it easier to write on a computer, as it's really difficult for me to hand write due to my mobility impairment.

I find it much quicker and easier to write with a computer keyboard than with a pen and paper. My handwriting is never neat and as I write I am thinking too fast for handwriting. I am a trained typist and I don't look at the keys as I type, my eyes are on the screen. I just have to think of the words and they appear before me. I never write anything without editing it, which is so much easier to do on screen than on paper. I can add, delete and replace words or sentences. I can correct spelling, grammar and punctuation, and I can move paragraphs around, to make the piece read better. Often I spend more time editing my work than I do on writing it. I find pen and paper useful for making lists or quick notes, and for jotting down information or quotations I find in books.

When I am writing, it is easier for me to use pen and paper. My mind goes too fast for my fingers sometimes, and I think since I started that way, it just flows faster and easier for me when I use the paper and pen. I have written using a computer and it works ok, but I still find, creatively, I work better writing in longhand first.

Writing on the computer,whether desktop or laptop has become a trendy event in the recent past.Personally,I am a lover of pen and paper but as I became very active in freelance writing in the past two months,I started using more of laptop than my pen and paper. As I progress in my freelancing career,I am afraid the computer may eventually and completely replace my pen and paper. The only problem now is my eyes which become painful when I work on the night.

I think that writing with a pen on paper is fast becoming a dying art! Twenty years from now we will take our children or grandchildren to a museum where they will stare in wonder at these marvels of yesteryear! lol. This is of course assuming we can drag them away from their computers or handheld devices long enouhg to actually GET them into a museum! Even for me these days writing on paper with a pen seems awkward!

I do both. I tend to write notes before I write a story, so I've gotten a notebook to do it in, and then I have to write a story on the computer. I -can- write a book on paper, but it's not as comfortable or familiar to me as writing on the computer. But still, all the while, I'm at my notebook with pen and paper, because it helps me get a better grasp of the whole story.

I find that writing with a keyboard is much faster than doing it longhand. However, when I first began writing about 30 years ago I wrote everything in a journal which I took with me everywhere. I had the romantic notion that ink flowing from a pen onto the paper was the only way to be creative. Ha! Now that I write for a newspaper the romance is over and I find that it's work like everything else. (I do keep a small notebook with me at all times for notes and ideas, but the actual writing is done on my PC.)

I usually write in a notebook first then type it into the computer. There is something to be said for writing in ink.

When I was still in school and I am preoccupied with school work, I always make it a point to put everything on paper first and then afterwards, that's the time I'll encode it. However, right now, I find it easier to write on a computer directly. Lol.

i use both. but it is faster and easier on a computer. it is also neater and cleaner looking on a computer. on paper and pen, it tends to get messy and i end up scribbling a lot. it tends to look sloppy.

Hi I just love to write and nothing beats getting a blank piece of paper and a pen to write with. I write all my poems directly onto paper, as this is easier for me. It's taken a while, but I am now quite a fast typer, but I find it is easy to spell words wrong or just make typos when using a computer. Not that I don't make mistakes on paper but I find they are few and far between. In answer to your question then, give me old fashioned pen and paper any day

If I were to choose between a computer or a notebook,I would still choose the notebook. Though it may seem "old-age", I find it easier to write on a notebook simply because when I write on a notebook, it gives me that freedom that whenever something pops out of my head, I could easily write it down and whenever I am to write an article, I would use a pen and paper because I kinda like the looks of it when you see your work full of erasures Haha! and it doesn't matter anyway coz it is just a scratch and your head is just overflowing with ideas and you can't make up your mind which you should write first.

i find that if i am doing my writing it is easier to do it on paper first, for whatever reason once i start writing with pen or pencil, it just flows until the end, if i do it on the computer i end up stopping constantly and thinking what comes next.