I can't seem to write very well with a computer at all.

The paper beneath my hand, the pen touching the paper and the ink feels like the actual life blood of my characters. Sounds odd, doesn't it?

I am doing the editing and rewrite on my first novel now. I have the whole thing written...it has taken me years to finish due to the distractions of chronic illness. In my head the story has been told, and I am almost loathe to return to it. I am having to learn discipline: the discipline of telling the story, but making it palattable for the possible reader. Ugh...*s*

But to do it, the act of really writing with the pen on paper is the only way I can make these people I have come to know and love spring to life. I heard once that the author Shelby Foote wrote with an actual quill and inkwell...I don't go quite THAT far *s*

I am eager to write everything I have in a file ready to go, but I am detwrmined to do this novel right. I have a friend who is doing the typing into manuyscript form for me. She too is a writer. Once she has it all typed, she will help me pick up on the inconsistancies, overuse of adjectives, pronouns and sentence run ons etc. God bless her.