I used to draft poems on paper at all times, and I still do so if I am traveling or would find the computer inconvenient to use (when I am drying my hair, for instance). But as I have become more used to writing on the computer for other things, I have started to draft poems there, too. It is simpler to move sections of the poem around on the computer and easier to change words and whole lines multiple times. I always revise as I write, never just sitting down and writing a whole poem in draft form before I change anything. Of course, when one uses complex rhyming forms, as I often do, it would be hard to write the whole thing in one go with no changes.
Susan
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