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In Defense of the Notebook: Why You Should Consider Writing by Hand
by, Jenna Goodman
April 18, 2014
Jenna Goodman provides editorial services for Swenson Book Development, LLC

The coffee shop is packed with them: young, hip, ironic writer types purporting to work on short stories, dissertations, even a couple of novels. Small wobbly tables support MacBook Pros with Retina Displays, along with half empty mocha latte cups, and the latest version of iPhone. The human operators of these machines are creative and intelligent, if somewhat distracted. In between all of their tweeting,… [Read More]

Filed Under: longhand, Moleskin, science of handwriting, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote
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