Oh yeah, writing it out longhand is definitely strange. Really very strange. I am a bit dislexic so I have a hard time with handwriting anyway. But what convinced me that I wanted to do it that way was seeing the original draft of Alice in Wonderland at the British Library. I thought 'If I do this on a computer, there will never be a first draft'. The other thing is that it stops me checking the word count, and stops me revising and editing as I go along. I wonder if it will change my writing style. I think this will end up sparse on details, which is possibly not how it would come out if I typed it. I'm not so verbose in longhand cos it's too much like hard work.