David Foster Wallace
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Writing by hand makes your brain wait
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In writing by hand, we deliberately pause to make the brain wait. This forced interruption, called disfluency, yields more thoughtful writing. There’s a reason many successful writers from David Foster Wallace to JK Rowling opt to write with pen and paper — longhand is intentionally slower than the click-clack of a keyboard. (Note: I encourage…