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Wiley Wednesday: By Hand vs. The Keyboard — No Comments

  1. I enjoyed this Wiley very much. I love the reasons you have for hand writing, much more alive and open to instant editing and change and as you say it\’s so much easier to write in the margins, make notes to yourself. 🙂

  2. Very nice essay. Composed on computer? Lol.

    I value the art of hand writing, and carry a notebook with me at all times to catch stray ideas on the fly, or, just as you said – to entertain myself. I don\’t think I could compose a novel that way – simply because of how slow I write, and that I\’m a neat freak. I take a lot more thought into putting something on paper, since I can\’t just press backspace.

    I really like the idea of how the notebook allows you to be more \’free-form\’, especially unlined. Love the spiral idea.

    And how the heck do you put hyperlinks to chapters in your word docs!!!??

    Teach me THAT!!! Please!!!!

    Great Wiley, Cat. =)

  3. First, to do it, you need to use \”Styles\” for your chapter headings. You can use as many levels as you need to, but I only use 1. I change the Style formatting for Level 1 to suit me (I don\’t like Word\’s default), but that\’s up to you.
    1. Format MenuStyles and Formatting
    2. Change the Chapter Title to Heading 1, for example. (This means, select the text of \”Chapter One\” and then change its style to Heading 1.)
    3. Once you\’ve done this with all your chapters, go to the front of the document (shortcut: ctrl-home).
    4. Insert MenuReferenceIndex and Tables.
    5. Select the Table of Contents tab.
    6. In the center bottom of the window, change the \”Show Levels\” to 1 if you only use Heading 1 (or whatever depth of headers you used).
    7. Hit Okay. This will put the table in the front of the doc. I use ctrl-enter to drop a hard page break after it so my Chapter One starts on page 2.
    8. Note: I break my chapters by section, not hard page break, by going to Insert menu and selecting \”Break,\” then Section Break, \”New Page.\” This lets me drop in chapter-specific headers.

    C\’est fini. Email me if you get stuck.

  4. Excellent post, dear. Very wiley! I especially liked your idea of writing in a spiral from the outside corner to the center of the page. As someone else who does morning pages, I think I\’m going to try this one day and see how it goes!