[Roger Slater]

Well, I think I mentioned a couple of factors, such as by-passing the need to visualize the way the poem will look on a printed page and avoidance of the physical effort of pushing a pen across paper. I'd add to that the speed factor. I can type much, much faster than I can write with a pen, and if I think of a line to write down, having to use a pen to write it out on a piece of paper interrupts the inspiration and the rhythm I am developing and causes me to have to take what amounts to a time-out from creation in order to tend to the chore of pushing my pen across the page. It's almost like having to stop after every line to take out the garbage or do the dishes. For me, the physical act of writing with a pen is pure drudgery. But typing on a keyboard is second nature, effortless and automatic, and leaves me with a perfect and instantaneous vision of my words as they would appear on the page. I am not interrupted from the mental processes of writing by the physical chore of recording what my mental processes come up with.