[Julie Steiner]

I used to be a great believer in writing things out longhand, mainly because before I got a laptop (in 2014) I had to sit at a desk to type, and as someone whose arms are asymmetrical, I don't enjoy resting my arms on a desk. But now the typing happens where the longhand scribbling used to happen--while sitting cross-legged on my bed.

I mostly compose without literally writing, though--just in my head, while I'm on my morning walk, or vacuuming, or weeding. This partially explains why I have so little output, as I forget a lot of it before I make it back to the computer to type it. But this doesn't trouble me. I figure that anything not compelling enough to remember that long is probably not compelling enough to keep, anyway.