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Crysi
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 Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:08 am Post subject: Technology Kills. |
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Well, technology can kill writing, anyway.
See, I had this wonderful post. I had carefully chosen every word and even managed to insert a bit of humor into it. It was beautiful! And then... Firefox froze.
Now, I hadn't finished the post yet, and so I just hit Ctrl-c. My shortcut to everything.
Except when I shut down Firefox, opened a new window, and went to paste my post back in... it wasn't there. It didn't copy. And you know what? I don't feel like replicating it. Technology has officially given me writer's block.
See, that never happens with good old-fashioned paper and pencil. The page won't freeze, you never have to refresh it or worry about slow loading times. You can't get a virus from a notebook (although you can certainly get a papercut), and your pencil will never write the letters slower than you input them.
I suppose the downside to the traditional writing materials is that you can't easily share it with others. Online, I can simply type in my post, hit Submit, and BAM! The whole world can see it in a few seconds. Not that I use that for my work - I'd rather not submit my work to hundreds of greedy eyes until it's almost perfect. I'm just that squeamish about criticism of my precious.
For now, I think the old way of writing is the right one for me. Although I suppose I'll have to get over that sooner or later - after all, I can't very well submit this post without overcoming that frustration.
Now, off to battle Windows-induced writer's block... |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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| A Prarie Home Companion's take on the pencil. |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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That's why I always write long posts in Word  . |
That's why I always write any entry — long or short — in Notepad.
For me, using the computer to write isn't a matter of showing it to other people; I personally think technology brings writing to a whole new level. See, the problem with paper and pencil is that the pencil can only go as fast as I can write. Which isn't very fast at all. Plus, if I try to write for a few hours in a row, chances are that my wrists will be killing me when I'm done.
But the computer? I can type reasonably fast (I think), and so what ends up happening is that I can keep typing at the same rate that my thoughts flow. And when I'm really into a story/poem/whatever, I type faster, and I end up typing a lot of thoughts before I consciously process them. So, basically, I have no conscious idea what I'm writing about. The actual writing becomes a blur — yes, a good blur — and it's kind of like achieving writing nirvana. That's my favourite thing about writing, I think, because that particular experience is so exhilirating, and 98.9% of the time, the writing that I do then is a lot better than my usual writing.
Pen and paper is a LOT more laborious, and that whole writing nirvana thing never happens. Plus, I can only write for so long before my wrists stage a rebellion. |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hahaha... I write about the same time I type, so... what is a writing nirvana for you is just me being mindless and/or exhausted. XD
But still! Word has this handy thing that, if there is a blackout, it automatically saves your work, even if you don't save it, and then when you bring it back up, it's there! This is REALLY good for me, because I tend to get writer's block if it dies on me and I have to retype.
And notebooks are always good... |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Aw, I feel sorry for you, Crysi. I sacrificed Chapter 4 of the Chair to computer heaven not too long ago, stupid electrical outage... -_- |
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| Backups people... Quite simple actually. |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:41 am Post subject: |
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| I long-hand everything before I even think of inserting it into a machine that has the potential to devour my brilliance. |
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