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I know of what you speak - my computer loves to speed away, automatically.
Such an interesting question and variety of answers! I think my novels are 80% thought, 15% typing and 5% deleting! I write, from brain to page, slowly, but that draft is the only draft, I edit as I go. So taking away 2nd & 3rd drafts, I'm probably pretty quick! Not as good as Rita, though!
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I know of what you speak - my computer loves to speed away, automatically.
Such an interesting question and variety of answers! I think my novels are 80% thought, 15% typing and 5% deleting! I write, from brain to page, slowly, but that draft is the only draft, I edit as I go. So taking away 2nd & 3rd drafts, I'm probably pretty quick! Not as good as Rita, though!
I then found software, Nuance NaturallySpeaking, whereby I can dictate what I wrote into the computer, and this saves a lot of time.
Now I'm training myself to just take notes on each chapter – working out the layout/synopsis and dictating it directly instead of writing it in longhand in the first place. What used to take a year, I think will take at least three months, and in total five months including editing.