Plinky says jump, I buy a trampoline.

I'm a perfectionist, so typing allows me to keep myself in check. Erasing mistakes comes as simply as a keystroke, rather than having to turn the pencil upside down, rub away, turn it back and write again. I'm also a habitual doodler, as my ring binders full of uni notes will testify. They're nonsensical if not illegible, and are full of stories, conversations and insults hurled at my classmates.

Come on, do you really think the average human's attention span would cover a whole musicology lecture?

At a keyboard, I can get things written down as fast as I can think them, so it's not so much a fight with my attention span as it is a battle to project my stream of consciousness into something worth reading. However, it's for that exact reason that I handwrite my song lyrics. They're worth thinking about and pondering over. Writing them with pencil and paper gives me the feeling that I'm actually crafting something tangible and meaningful. I feel as though I owe it to my art.