Writing a Novel in Long Hand

I don't write much down before I actually start composing a first draft, but it's definitely percolating the whole time. So with this book, I think it was in summer of 2019, maybe I really got going. I wrote this one in long hand and then some notebooks. And just had to do that with short stories sometimes, but I've never done that with a novel before. You revise a little bit as you go, but you're not like doing lots of cutting and pasting and deleting obviously.

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