I disagree with the premise that a typewriter is a lousy first-draft device. My old-school writing technique before I got my first computer was to type a first

I disagree with the premise that a typewriter is a lousy first-draft device. My old-school writing technique before I got my first computer was to type a first draft (on a manual typewriter), full of typos and ^H^H^HXXX corrections. Since I had a manual typewriter back in high school, but tended not to have paper for it, most of those first drafts were typed onto whatever paper I could come up with. Then, I would edit it on paper and do a clean draft on the electric typewriter at the school newspaper office, using liquid paper to fix the inevitable typos. I still do something similar now, although I use Word instead of a typewriter. I print the first draft, edit on paper and retype from scratch for a second draft. I always print that and do (at least) one more editing round afterwards. Sometimes I may do a complete retype deep into the revising practice as things become more dramatically changed.