I agree touch typing is a great skill and I’m wondering when should my daughter start learning. I like doing edits on paper as well, although at times I wonder if it is more efficient to do it digitally.

Although I can touch type (that Pitman course has got to be the single-most cost-effective course I’ve done of all my degrees and postgraduate qualifications), I find that the hand and the pen works at the right speed with my brain when I’m writing.

Yes, the entire first draft is handwritten and then typed up afterwards. I try to do it a chapter at a time, but if the muse is with me and i carry on writing then I have a bit of a catchup. I then print it off and go through it making edits and work it back it into the typed up version usin track changes.

I love fountain pens. I have two, one I use at work (currently with purple ink) and one I use for my diary which was turned from a fallen maple tree and currently has red ink. If I was to write a book I don’t know if I’d want to write it by hand, how do you do your edits? Do you need to type it all up first? I think I’d get bored.