Do writers feel more creative and expressive with pen and paper, or do thoughts come out as easily as when typing on a keyboard?

Typing for my day job of writing policy documents or business analyses. Typing for my past vocation of writing linguistics papers. Typing for Quora, typing for blogs.

Typing for doggerel: Nick Nicholas’ answer to How can one use the word “Quora” in a limerick?

For a sonnet? For a poem that actually matters to me? The scratching out of rhyming alternatives and metrical missteps is actually part of the process for me. As is the scrawl.

To my wife, on our five-year anniversary by Nick Nicholas on Opɯdʒɯlɯklɑr In Exile

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