"Maybe more disciplined people can work slowly enough at a keyboard, but I find it difficult still. When I really want to think about something, I still start w

"Maybe more disciplined people can work slowly enough at a keyboard, but I find it difficult still. When I really want to think about something, I still start with paper." With me it is a drawing. Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, doodles, phrases floating around distributed spatially by the degree of affinity. I find paper/pen just a lot quicker for that. Nowt posh just Biro and A4 copy paper or a sketchbook. I find the fashionable Moleskine paper to be too thin so I use artists sketchbooks or an Alwych notebook http://www.sohcahtoa.org.uk/legacy/blog/notes/white-van-drivers-notebook/index.html http://www.sohcahtoa.org.uk/legacy/blog/notes/white-van-driv... clipboards are important. A local discount art materials shop has A3 clipboards (6mm thick) aimed at sketchers going for £4. Must get.