Hi Daniel,
Nice to see this praise of a medium., and I'm glad this works so well for you. I always compose longhand, then type up in Word. I value the slowness of longhand composition, and tend to be unhappy with the few pieces I've composed onscreen. A personal taste. I would just add, as an enemy of spellcheck, that I don't like my words being completed for me by an algorithm. It is very often wrong, and requires of me an attention to being misguessed at which I find a bit antithetical to the state of mind I need. If I am typing, say, they're, their, it's or its, or some foreign language - to name a few examples - I know what I want and don't want an algorithm stabbing blindly in the dark. It is however true that after the fact, in Word, I am generally grateful for the underlinings of various colors that spur me to contemplate, say, my punctuation. The piece is already written by then.
Cheers,
John
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