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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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Man, I still have one of those now, and I just love it when those things keep remembering what I typed as the dasiy wheel pans from the end of the line to the beginning of the next line to give a very satisfying splurt of high speed thumps and twacks onto the roller, while I'm still typing and it's still trying to catch up.
I used to speed up at the end of the line just to make the thumps and twacks last longer (then I wondered why my writing made no sense, particularly at the end of every line of writing  ). |
If you could still find the correctable cartridge that went inside the thing, I'd have that Smith Corona today. God, how I loved that typewriter.
I have to have a certain kind of notebook. A4 sized, ringed. Not just any old notebook with a picture of Mickey Mouse on the front will do. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Man, I don't need any specific gear to write. In fact, it's a bit hard for me to understand reliance on specific keyboards, notebooks, pens, whatever. |
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arjuna
Joined: 31 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Man, I don't need any specific gear to write. In fact, it's a bit hard for me to understand reliance on specific keyboards, notebooks, pens, whatever. |
I don't understand it either, but I do need a fountain pen with an extra-fine nib to write poetry. My favorite pens are Waterman--Le Man and Edson are good hefty pens. I cannot write anything with a ball-point pen. For paper, I prefer standard-size wire-bound lined notebook. I write best at quiet outdoor cafes. Classrooms or offices have never been creative places for me.
For all other writing, I like to use the computer at home or in any quiet setting. |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| Man, I don't need any specific gear to write. In fact, it's a bit hard for me to understand reliance on specific keyboards, notebooks, pens, whatever. |
It's not "reliance" but rather a preference. Writing is something that I spend so much of my time doing that I would prefer to have some things to ease the process. Showering is something that most of us do often, and I bet that you have a particular shampoo or comb that you would like to have to do the deed.
For me, the keyboard is important because I get cramps in my wrists or in my seat when I sit in one position for a long time. I write for hours at a time, often without breaks (probably why I worry about alienating my wife and daughter in the process).
(and, *sniff* I like good keyboards!  )
When I grade papers or do things that I do not prefer to do but have to do, I get distracted often, but my wife often has to pull me away from my keyboard and computer when meal times come around or when the sun has done a cycle or so.
I can see the different thought process for verse writers though: it's more in the head than in the mileage of text. |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:37 am Post subject: |
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Actually, I have the hardest time refraining from the temptation to revise. When I start to revise, I know there is no end to it because it can never become perfect since it is unfinished, but at the same time, the glaring oversights annoy.
I have even been at this same writing task for the past year and I try not to revise. I know that it is a never-ending task.
Is this getting too severe? I know I am right, but at what point is adhering to this rule of mine too bonkers? I have done the revision thing before and I have seemingly spent all of my time doing it when I could have done the revisions at the end without any real difficulty for having saved it all to the end. And, the revision, the craft, cuts short the creativity, the life line of the whole project. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:54 am Post subject: |
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My biggest pitfall is lousy writers.
Hear that, King Baeksu?  (Don't worry, you're one of the good ones) |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Wow, lots of "writers" here. Just curious, what are all you people writing? I sincerely hope that it is a blog about your numerous exploits at room salons in Korea! |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Ok, let's keep it positive, but what happened to the discussion of the writing itself?
What difficulties do you find at 100 pages in or so? |
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oneofthesarahs
Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Location: Sacheon City
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| I'm strictly a short story girl, so 100 pages is never an issue for me. I'm hoping to someday publish a book of short stories, but I think I'm going to need to get my work out in magazines and such first. I've already been published in a few literary magazines here and there, but nothing really big yet. I won the best short story award two years running in my college's literary mag, but I don't know if that counts for much. My current goal is to get published in McSweeney's. The plan is to mail some stuff off during my 2 month interim in the States. |
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Xerxes
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Location: Down a certain (rabbit) hole, apparently
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| Whhbt pitfalls? Alchool |
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