I am trying something new, at least to me.
I read recently that Neil Gaimen does his first drafts by hand. He said that when he is starting a new book, he buys a new notebook to draft in. He stated that doing it this way helps him to focus. Drafting on a computer has too many distractions.
This idea really intrigued me. So, for this post, I am starting out by hand writing it.
Now, I am doing some things differently. For one thing, I am writing this in my SuperNote. Second, I am going to do my second draft on my Neo2. Finally I will do the clean-up and post on my tablet. Also, this is a short blog post, not a book.
I will say that, so far, this seems to have a good flow. I have always liked writing by hand and I seem more focused right now. This might just work well.
I am going to wrap this part of the blog up now. I will add a note in the end once I have a good idea about how the whole process works.
Final note:
I like this process. It seemed that getting my ideas down was quick and flowed really well. Typing the second draft let me make some obvious changes that I might have missed if I was just editing the draft like I have done before. For the time being, I am going to continue to do things this way.