You wouldn't draft a letter or sketch a still life with an ink-stained finger, but that's what writing or drawing on a tablet amounts to without the proper tool.

WSJ: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Swipe

It's the red pen on the page and the discarded sketch, the trashed prototype and the failed first draft.

WSJ: Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative

Courier was for the creative set, a gadget on which architects might begin to sketch building plans, or writers might begin to draft documents.

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