Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

November 10, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Is technology really my friend? Or is it just pretending to be my friend so it can date my sister? I like ...

In a wonderful article published on the New York Review of Books blog the poet Charles Simic proclaimed "writing with a pen or pencil on a piece of paper is becoming an infrequent activity". Simic was ...

I'm a writer, and to generate words I care about I first write them longhand, with pen and ink on paper. I'm also a teacher of creative writing, and when I tell my students—virtually all of whom write ...

Stephen King purportedly wrote Dreamcatcher in longhand — using a Waterman cartridge pen. J. K. Rowling penned The Tales of Beedle the Bard — all 157 pages of it — in longhand, and the leather-bound ...

If you’re still scratching your head and trying to come up with an answer, you’re not alone. One recent British survey of 2,000 adults found that one-in-three hadn’t written anything out longhand in ...

Over the past three years, one of the most signficant changes I’ve made in my writing habits has been to return to drafting in longhand. For me, this makes a huge qualitative difference both in my ...