![]() Today, you can partially break this feeling of isolation by taking your laptop down to the closest coffee shop and tagging along with a cloud of screenwriters working their way through The Hero’s Journey. Isaac Asimov, along with countless peers, mention the imposed loneliness writing involves. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.” Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. ![]() Write by Hand to Unleash the Adventurer in You Scientifics from Berkley and UCLA even published a paper back in 2014 demonstrating that the pen is mightier than the keyboard, so even if you don’t care about reasons 1 to 3 below, it is scientifically proven that holding a pen triggers much more connections in your brain than typing on a keyboard. And then I made one single decision that helped me complete a first draft in 10 days: I decided to write it by hand.īlown away by the results, I did some digging and discovered that there were many reasons why writing by hand is such a powerful tool and why all of the Final Drafts, Words, and Scriveners would never compete against the power of a pen and a paper when it came to your first draft. So much so that after a few days, I stopped seeing my phone’s wallpaper and went back on forgetting for hours that I should go back to writing. I had planned to write a feature screenplay I had been thinking about for three years, and I couldn’t help but check my phone all of the time. I changed my phone’s wallpaper to make sure I would literally go back to writing instead of checking my notifications. You can connect with Nathalie on Twitter at where she hangs out during virtual breaks. She also offers The Creative Break, helping writers to reconnect with their mojo and stretch their creative muscle. Nathalie is a story fabricator and creative nomad who founded, a blog for filmmakers and storytellers to nurture their skills and craft.
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