This summer, I decided that I wanted to increase my typing speed tenfold. So I got a roll of that super-adhesive opaque tape and cut out little squares, placing them over the letters and symbols on my keyboard. It was crazy and grueling task, but it brought me from twenty words per minute to around eighty words per minute; more if I'm texting on my cell phone.
I also started to write this summer.
Which brings me to my question: is the speed of your hands an important factor in the creative process?
I used to write all of my stories longhand; but that got me nowhere. I just used my journal as an excuse to never show my stories to anyone. My journal made me feel all mighty and self-important: I wrote in it and was therefore a writer. But I never reread or even edited the pieces; just sat on them.
So my question you yws-ers is this: do you think writing stories longhand is a good idea? And do you think the rate of your words has anything to do with your motivation.
note: I was twenty words at best. A post like this could have taken me over ten minutes to write. So to be more specific: Do you think having terribly slow hands would detract from your writing routine?
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