_Do you lose ideas because your imagination travels faster than your
means of recording? Which affords least check--pencil, typewriter or
stenographer?_
This question, like the preceding one, was added to the questionnaire at
the suggestion of several experienced writers with whom I consulted. As
is pointed out in some of the answers, the choice of means of recording
would seem a matter to be decided wholly in accordance with the
idiosyncrasies of each particular writer. But human nature is somewhat
prone to settle down upon one method without trying all and it may well
be that some writers now wedded to one method may, on learning the
experiences of over a hundred others, try some new method and find it
advantageous. Certainly the answers as a whole give an interesting and
full presentation of the practical arguments for and against the various
methods, and, as in all the answers to the questionnaire, there are
various bits of information not always bearing directly on the
particular issue that will be found illuminating and valuable.