How I write
Feb. 3rd, 2003 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielLast year's Computer Crash of Great Doom and Horror turns out to have had a really positive effect now that I've got a good year's perspective on it.
Left PC-less, I was forced to write long-hand. I wrote most of the Tolkien-based fic (including the novel) long-hand (mostly sitting on trains, actually). The best bits of the thesis have been written long-hand. I think it's something to do with adding a level of thought or control - you certainly think before you write...
Last week I was back writing scenes that involved lots of dialogue; rapid fire exchanges between characters. The keyboard was the only way to keep up with the dialogue as the characters played it out for me...
So, current preferred writing tools of choice? Back of used A4 printer paper and a cherry gel pen. Type up (and edit as you type), print, hack at with the cherry pen.
Or, as we were reduced to on Saturday while we waited to go into the cinema, the ever-trusty back of an envelope. Or, in this case, the back of a NatWest ATM paying-in envelope. That'll be worth a fortune one day...
Left PC-less, I was forced to write long-hand. I wrote most of the Tolkien-based fic (including the novel) long-hand (mostly sitting on trains, actually). The best bits of the thesis have been written long-hand. I think it's something to do with adding a level of thought or control - you certainly think before you write...
Last week I was back writing scenes that involved lots of dialogue; rapid fire exchanges between characters. The keyboard was the only way to keep up with the dialogue as the characters played it out for me...
So, current preferred writing tools of choice? Back of used A4 printer paper and a cherry gel pen. Type up (and edit as you type), print, hack at with the cherry pen.
Or, as we were reduced to on Saturday while we waited to go into the cinema, the ever-trusty back of an envelope. Or, in this case, the back of a NatWest ATM paying-in envelope. That'll be worth a fortune one day...
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Date: 2003-02-12 01:08 pm (UTC)I do know what you mean about long-hand helping with throwing ideas down - scribbling down notes and so. I do all my planning of prose (fiction and non-fiction) long-hand. Complete with arrows and diagrams and stuff.
The other thing I like about long-hand is that writing with a pen is actually pleasurable. I just like watching ink (well, gel ink) make marks on paper.