I'm a writer, former grammar tutor, former english major (heavens no), and have done a lot of editing/proofreading, and I loved this post.
I'm trying to get back to writing by hand lately and just mentioned to someone days ago how odd it is to me to hear famous authors I admire saying that they write everything by hand. I look at them in awe upon hearing that revelation.
I wasn't raised on computers. I'm in my late thirties and lived in the deep south when in school, where the state culture was behind the rest of the country, and never saw a computer lab, even in college. I've only been using a home pc for four years now, but I've written everything with it since, and now feel I can't do without it. So the off button is my new favourite, at least during this experiment in which I pretend it's the 80's and no matter how fast I'm thinking or how seductive the spell checker is, I'm not going to rely on the computer in order to express my inner literary yearnings!
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pass me the candle
Date: 2007-09-13 12:12 am (UTC)I'm trying to get back to writing by hand lately and just mentioned to someone days ago how odd it is to me to hear famous authors I admire saying that they write everything by hand. I look at them in awe upon hearing that revelation.
I wasn't raised on computers. I'm in my late thirties and lived in the deep south when in school, where the state culture was behind the rest of the country, and never saw a computer lab, even in college. I've only been using a home pc for four years now, but I've written everything with it since, and now feel I can't do without it. So the off button is my new favourite, at least during this experiment in which I pretend it's the 80's and no matter how fast I'm thinking or how seductive the spell checker is, I'm not going to rely on the computer in order to express my inner literary yearnings!