Handwriting

There was a competition recently where one of the prizes was a script from Wanted: A Wild Western Adventure signed by me. I know, I should have told you all about it, but my mind has been everywhere just lately. I signed it and sent it off to The Adventure Company yesterday, but just before I signed it I worried that I'd make a mess of the short message, so practiced a few times before I did the real thing.

Using computers so much means that I hardly ever write anything by hand these days, and certainly nothing for public consumption, so I find that I really have to think about doing so when I want to not make any mistakes. Sometimes, when I'm taking notes and make a mistake, my mind often thinks "Ctrl Z", such is how much I've become used to the handy nature of "undo".

I was actually very surprised to find that Neil Gaiman, who regularly posts long entries in his online journal, writes all his fiction by hand with a fountain pen. One of the things I love about typing is that it allows me to get my thoughts down so much more quickly than if I was writing them out by hand. Still, a person must write in the manner which allows them to maximise their creativity, so as long as Mr. Gaiman continues to give us such quality, the method of doing so is really irrelevant.