I completely agree. The ole notebook and pen has a completely different feel to it. I haven't taken it as far as writing the whole script out, but I hear that long hand vs keyboard accesses different parts of the brain.

Hi,

I am an author from India, completed my first script just a month back and want to send. But wondering, is it necessary to live in USA to sell a spec there???

I have my colleges and at least for 2 more years it is impossible.

Will be thankful if you reply.

Regards.

I miss the typewriter -- that's what I used to use as a kid. One thing I've thought of doing is using final draft to get to my first pass, print out the script, then delete the file, do all my notes by hand on paper and then retype the whole thing from scratch like I used to. Would add maybe a day or two to the draft, but that process of running every word through your body again I think would be very strong. But I wonder how long I'd go before I remembered why I loved the word processor when it first appeared!

I use my Macbook to write my scripts, but since I have a degree of dyslexia and being hunt and peck typist, make me give deep consideration to anything I commit to the page.

Hey, thanks for quoting my Dad. There's actually a little more to the idea than you presented in that bit you posted. In conversation he used to say that the ease of cutting and pasting and deleting on a computer -- not needing to 'put it through the typewriter' and re-type a whole page to fix a mistake -- had made people lazy. you see things when you're typing that you don't notice when you're reading. You also make cuts because you just don't want to re-type a particularly tedious sentence. He used to say that people's drafts were twenty percent worse because of that laziness. I thought it over, decided he was right, and went right back to the computer, anyway. I'll make the 20% bargain. I'm lazy.