I worked as a reviewer and I'm trying to write a novel I would like attributed to my name. When I was a reviewer I worked exclusively on a computer.
However when I began writing novels there was much more inspiration involved. It wasn't an organised stream of consciousness like reviewing often is, and becomes more about inspiration and catching it when it strikes. I frequently have a small 3"x8" notepad stuffed into my pocket, I keep a large A4 notepad by my bed and I try to write anything down when I can, even if it serves no purpose in the end.
On the downsides of a computer, there are downsides of anything. I've mucked out my rabbits litter box as procrastination when the internet has been down. The main upside to not using a computer, is that when you procrastinate it actually saves you time later. The computer is the only machine where you can efficiently procrastinate and produce nothing whatsoever out of it. If you procrastinate by washing the dishes, well suck it self you don't have to do it later! You eventually finish everything you can procrastinate with early, and end up with nothing but writing to do. When you have a computer, you can piss about on facebook and your day amounts to nothing . . . then you have to do the dishes anyway.
However when I began writing novels there was much more inspiration involved. It wasn't an organised stream of consciousness like reviewing often is, and becomes more about inspiration and catching it when it strikes. I frequently have a small 3"x8" notepad stuffed into my pocket, I keep a large A4 notepad by my bed and I try to write anything down when I can, even if it serves no purpose in the end.
On the downsides of a computer, there are downsides of anything. I've mucked out my rabbits litter box as procrastination when the internet has been down. The main upside to not using a computer, is that when you procrastinate it actually saves you time later. The computer is the only machine where you can efficiently procrastinate and produce nothing whatsoever out of it. If you procrastinate by washing the dishes, well suck it self you don't have to do it later! You eventually finish everything you can procrastinate with early, and end up with nothing but writing to do. When you have a computer, you can piss about on facebook and your day amounts to nothing . . . then you have to do the dishes anyway.