I outline my story ideas on A4 papers.
My planner is not digital.
I can only finish reading a newspaper from cover to cover if I'm holding it in my hands. (My major was newspaper reporting -- don't laugh).
Not that you should care, but I've come across this a lot: many writers (not to call myself one just yet, but you know, for the purpose of this rant) tend to like it hard...I mean, in hard copy.
I'm just wondering if the next generation will/is getting used to the screen copy, and if that's a good thing.
Are words more lively if they can linger under your pen? Are they more sacred if there's the possibility of them getting stained rather than deleted and vanished?
I don't know. I'm not a romantic in this sense but as Zoozoo says, nostalgia is one of our biggest weaknesses.
(Or strengths?)
4 comments:
... I read somewhere recently (perhaps on the Economist) that James Panero who is apparently more or less a famous art and culture critic in America (he writes occasionally in the New York Magazine) has said: "Today, online, everyone is a writer. Words have become a cheap bumper crop of little distinction. That’s a problem for the rarefied world of print. And now because of social networking, with its language of 'Likes' and 'Fans,' everyone is also a critic. Therein lies the particular crisis for critics in print."
-Anonymous
You have just deleted my comment! I hope it was not too vehement.
- Anonymous
no no i swear i didn't! i actually read it in my inbox but when i came on the blog it was gone. please post again!
oh right! well so you read it, then there is no point to rewrite it.
btw, why getting hold of you is rediculously hard? email? skype? messenger?
-Anonymous
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