Paper or Computer?

Computer, hands down. I write on paper when I absolutely have to and have no other choice, but typing is better for me. Plus, after I've written for awhile, my penmanship isn't even understandable anymore and my hand starts to cramp. It's just much easier for me to type. I don't really have that much trouble focusing or keeping inspiration then. Whereas with writing on paper, it's very easy for me to get distracted and I lose inspiration because I'm hurrying.

Computer, for sure. My handwriting becomes chicken scratch after a while, then I'm unable to read it and it annoys me. Thank the Lawd for technology, lmao.

Both. Paper for initial planning, and planning in general. Computer for actually putting the pieces of the story together.

I prefer paper, but I use both.

On paper I write out my OF and less happy-go-lucky fan-fiction. I find it easier especially for fantasy stories, and my handwriting's neat so I don't have a problem. I find it easier to think, it's more private (my family always walks behind me while I'm writing smut and I can't take my computer to my room anymore), and I take a notebook with me wherever I go.

As for computer, I tend to get distracted easily, and I can't write staring at a blank screen. But I like using Word for formatting, as well. I really copy from paper to computer, unless, like I said, the story's easier to write for and has shorter chapters.

Computer, hands down. My handwriting becomes atrocious after a while, and the formatting of the typing looks better on the computer anyways, ha.

Back in my early days of writing I wrote everything long hand, I swear I still have nine or ten notebooks full of horribly written, barely legible stories.

I much prefer computers, though. I seem to get everything down so much faster and the words seem to flow better.

I literally cannot read my own hand writing. Not as in it's just not "pretty," but as in people have told me I have the worst hand writing for a girl that they've ever seen and professors have taken points off of assignment due to spelling (even though my spelling is perfection) because my e's and my c's can look the same and my u's, a's, and o's can also look the same, especially if I'm writing in a hurry. Obviously, I tend to rely on my laptop for most of my writing, but I have a gazillion spiral notebooks where I jot down ideas for oneshots and outline chaptered fics.

I feel like it's easier to write on the computer because a.) it's quicker and b.) if I choose to move things around or insert a line here and there, it's easier to do so with a word processing program than it would be to mark up a sheet of notebook paper.

I plot on paper, only because it keeps the ideas there, it can't be accidentally deleted or lost in the sea of documents I keep on my laptop. I type everything on my laptop though, and a story generally means most to me if I wrote the idea on paper first. Even if I lose it in my house, when I find it I get all sentimental.

I wish terribly that I wrote more on paper with ink than I do electronically. Instead, though, I find it easier to form words with a keyboard and for the most part when I type up a story it tends to be more creative than when I write it down. I'll use paper and ink for when I'm hit with an idea and don't have an electronic device but other than that....

@ Astrid.
When it comes to actually writing the story, it's all online. I can move things around easier. Plain and simple. Not to mention we don't have a dictionary or thesaurus at home, which I am so guilty about. I'm left handed too, and I am a strictly pen girl, which makes the whole paper look awful. But plotting and ideas, all on paper baby.

I like paper better, for sure. Then when I'm ready to edit and post, I'll transfer it to the computer. Usually all the editing takes place while I'm transferring. I don't know, I just love the feeling of pen on paper.

I love making mind-maps on paper for the basis of my stories, it's so much fun to create characters and make them all interconnected in a way (if that's how you go with the plot). I find that it's easier to make a mind map on paper than it is on the computer, which is a crap load of effort that I'm not willing to do on the computer.

Both have their ups and downs to me. With the computer, I can work on any section of a chapter that I have figured out, plus if I make a mistake, or write something I don't like, editing it isn't messy. However, with a computer, sometimes I write myself into a corner, and I feel less motivated to keep going. Therefore, writing a fresh chapter on a computer is a slower process.
With paper, I feel compeled to write a chapter from start to finish, so sometimes I can't write the parts I'm most motivated to write right away. Plus the first results are rather messy and awkward since I might have just written something down for the sake of moving on. On the other hand, since I try to write the events of a chapter in order, the writing process is much faster on paper. In addition, I type my final drafts out, so I'm able to smooth all the mistakes and awkwardly worded/placed phrases out as I type it out.
So I guess the paper to laptop formula works best for me.

I like to write on paper first (a new development) because I have this thing where if I type on the computer I edit as I go which is just annoying. I can also add little notes in the margins and just... yeah. But since I've been doing the whole "paper first" thing I've been writing a lot more.

I'd rather be able to write on paper, but as someone else said further up the board people can always ask you what you're writing and I'm quite a private person and don't like people asking me what I'm doing because it makes me uncomfortable to think that they may ask to see what I'm doing.

If I wrote on paper, I'd be able to plan better and then actually progress in writing as opposed to typing about 300 words onto a Word Document and then coming to a complete stop. But then again, until I get over the anxiety of not seeing what I see in my head on the screen then it'll be 300 words and then a total block.

I find writing on the computer to be slightly easier though, dependent on circumstances, because I type faster than I write plus I always want my handwriting to look perfect and then I tend to get away from the story

Really I need a notebook because I get ideas at the most random times, and it's always at times when I find myself without anything to write in or on.

I like computers because I have severe arthritis in my hands so I can't really hold a pencil, this way makes it easier although if I can't start a story then I sometimes force myself to hold a pencil and write out openings in the different ways I want them then pick my fave.

From all the time I've spent typing papers for school, writing by hand doesn't feel natural anymore.

Computer. Sometimes I can't even read my own handwriting.

^ This, so much. I have decent handwriting, but when I reach the bottom of a page it's awful.
I prefer computers. I feel less confined, like there's more room around me.

I also like to write it down on paper first, then I type it and I can always change it up if I want