Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it
nealstephenson.substack.com
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your brain, which is a good thing.

About twenty-five years ago I stopped composing at the keyboard and switched over to fountain pen on paper. Since then I have written many thousands of pages that way. The manuscript of The Baroque Cycle was a stack of handwritten pages 42 inches high, which for a time was on display at the Museum of Science Fiction in Seattle. With the exception of The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., which I co-wrote with Nicole Galland by emailing Word files back and forth, every book I’ve written since then has been composed with fountain pen on paper.

  • schmorp@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    It’s double disgusting, because every corner of the web, even the ones where we try to find genuine content, is full of ads, and also people fall for it as long as it’s just presented with enough appearance of authenticity. That’s why I type my angry rants against consumerism and capitalism on my beloved KMarrrX Ergosynth Keyboard - the radical way to shitpost and comment!