I know what I'm doing even when I'm wearing a pencil skirt.
I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit.
I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper - literally - and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.
Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line.
I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.