Quote of the Day

[edenfalling]

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser -- in case you thought optimism was dead.
---Robert Brault


And the average pen has no eraser; what wild faith we writers have in ourselves!

(Then again, considering the 'delete' and 'backspace' keys, and the appeal of word processors... perhaps pessimism is winning. *contemplates*)

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

And the average pen has no eraser; what wild faith we writers have in ourselves!

(Then again, considering the 'delete' and 'backspace' keys, and the appeal of word processors... perhaps pessimism is winning. *contemplates*)

LOL -- you really do NOT want to see anything I've written longhand...such messiness...so many millions of scratchouts... Word processors are our friends :)

[edenfalling]

I don't write longhand very often because I can't keep up with my thoughts that way -- I have enough trouble on a keyboard, and I touch-type pretty fast. On the other hand, writing longhand does make me consider each sentence more carefully, so I don't have to scratch out as much.

Mostly I wrote prose on computers and poetry on paper. This is probably because poetry is more of an aesthetic endeavor for me, and I do take the time to consider each word and phrase at some length. I also like having hard copies of each revision, and poems, unlike stories, are short enough that I can do that. I do a fair bit of world-building on paper as well, because I like to play around with lists of names and words and I don't like the way those look on computer screens.

I wonder if any writers are completely rational about their particular processes and idiosyncrasies?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a pen-and-paper man, myself. Considering I have the attention span of a goldfish with ADD, if the mood to write strikes (in class, while watching TV, awakened from a sound sleep, wherever), I need to have it on paper right then, or I lose it.

-- Guile

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

i don't look at it ofr pessimism. it gives me a snese of securit yadn confidense. 'ok yocua nwrite it out now if it suck i ntheend you'll be able to easily redo it.'