Mark Smith asked pleasefindthis:

Do you type or write long-hand? What do you most like about the writing process?

pleasefindthis It all depends on what I'm writing. The tools you use influence what you write. The same way a musician might want a specific kind of ambience inside a studio to create a specific kind of music, I try to use different things for different tasks. If I have a few sentences that have been in my head for days, then I don't mind jotting those down quickly in a google document to make sure I don't lose them. But If I'm actively trying to write a poem, if I've sat down with that intention in mind, I use a fountain pen or a black ballpoint pen, never blue, on white unlined paper.

If I'm working on a longer piece of work, I work in a program called Scrivener that let's you keep track of scenes and characters and events.

Language exists in two phases, one in which it is purely an abstract phenomena - there should, logically, be no difference between listening to an audio book and reading the same story in hardcover or as an ebook.
But yet there is, there is an inherent beauty in the black shapes on the white background, there is nuance in the shape of the letters and whether they appear as pixels or as something more analogue.

The way you write something will ultimately dictate what you write.

The short answer is: Both.

What do I like most about the writing process?

The fact that it's a space I get to be perfect in. I can sit and edit and move a comma backwards and forward and move sentences around until I feel that what I want to say has been conveyed perfectly. Real life doesn't offer the same luxury.

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