Is it the worst day for writing or what?
In the introduction to Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott‘s classic book about the writing life, Lamott writes:
Continue reading “Writing on Mondays: yea or nay?”Mondays are not good writing days. One has had all the freedom over the weekend, all that authenticity, all those dreamy dreams, and then your angry mute Slavic Uncle Monday arrives, and it is time to sit down at your desk.
New research suggests that writing by hand helps us remember.
These past couple of years, as I’ve begun to take the craft of writing more seriously, I’ve found that writing by hand tends to make me more thoughtful and more engaged in the writing process. Also, when I compose ideas for stories on paper, I tend to have better recall of those ideas than those I tap out on a computer, smartphone notes app, or tablet.
Now there’s some research that supports the idea that writing by hand helps us remember.
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Andrew Careaga 