The Daunting Task of Writing Longhand and Why You Should Do It
14th October 2021
(I detest people who use ‘should’ in place of ‘ought’. Just sayin’.)
It seemed like double the work—to write 80,000 ish words by hand and then have to type it—am I right? Wrong. In fact, those who swear by it say you end up revising less since you write more carefully with a pen, so although you do have to transfer it to the computer, the work you’ve already done likely puts you a step, or perhaps a draft, ahead.
There’s other benefits too such as an increase of creativity in how using the pen stimulates your brain. (I worry today’s students miss out on this when they take notes on their computer instead of in a notebook.) You also remember what you write down better than you do when you type it. (This is another reason students should drop the computer.) Writing your novel longhand helps you to keep moving down the page too. It’s more aggravating to cross through words than to delete words with the push of a button. And when you cross through a word, it’s still there for you to see. Perhaps when you revise, you’ll like your first instinct better, but when you delete a word on the computer, it’s gone forever. Writing longhand helps you to choose words more carefully and move down the page at a better pace.
October 15th, 2021 at 08:14
The main difference between ‘should’ and ‘ought To’ is that should is used to express obligations, suggestions, or advice from a personal point of view, whereas ought to is used to express obligations, suggestions, or advice that is correct ethically, or correct according to society’s point of view.
You should reconsider how easily you throw around the word detest.
October 15th, 2021 at 14:11
I detest people who are less familiar with correct grammar than I am attempting to advance an eccentric view of a rule as if it were the norm.
Should is used with the subjunctive. It has no connection with an obligation, personal or otherwise, except in degenerate vulgar speech, WHICH I DETEST.