I guess there are advantages and disadvantages to anyone's composing work ethic.  But in this topic I will be talking about why I compose on paper and why it has proven so advantageous to me. There is perhaps a certain legend about composing on paper that it results in music that sounds more inspired.  For me it's more that when composing on paper, my musical imagination has more free reign and can't be fooled by the sound of the composition.  And I do think that "fooled" is the right word