Mark Mason

Chained to the keys

Writing is my living. So why can’t I write by hand any more?

issue 19 March 2011

I recently had to write the final section of a book. It wasn’t very long — 500 words or so, about half the length of this article — and an imminent train journey seemed the ideal opportunity. No laptop accompanying me, but that didn’t matter: as an exercise in nostalgia I would write the words in longhand.

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