(September 21, 2016 at 3:33 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Surely it's just people who do a a lot of creative writing are people who tend to often handwrite and that is why handwriting correlates with creative thinking skills?
I mean, basically, if I started writing with a pen I'm not going to suddenly magically become more creative.
I see no benefits to handwriting... besides personal letters and notes. They're nice in handwriting.
Yeah, there's a causation/correlation difficulty thing going on here. I don't even know that that many writers do so by hand, myself. It may even stifle my creativity in my own writing, simply because putting ink on paper is a little more permanent than typing into a processor, and that means for me that I pause and think more -- when in fact, such pauses are often the enemy of creativity.
I like handwriting my stuff for my own reasons, but one of them is not that it makes me a better writer.