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- From: adamsd@crash.cts.com (Adams Douglas)
- Subject: Re: Editing on Computer or Hardcopy
- Date: 12 Sep 92 02:29:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <adamsd.716264997@crash>
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- In <H6eqqB1w164w@glnserv.UUCP> jerryn@glnserv.UUCP (Jerry Norris) writes:
- >Writing is a personal thing in most instances. Because of that, we all
- >have things that we feel comfortable with; ways of doing things which
- >cause the creative beast within to stir and do things to words, phrases,
- >etc. I, personally, cannot stand to write on anything but a monitor and
- >keyboard. I find that I can do my editing on a computer as well. But it
- >doesn't mean that everyone can. I feel more comfortable using my word
- >processor (actually, they must be worderators. Right?) than usin
-
- You're quite correct. I would not have thought I would be getting money
- as a writer when I was in college, since I _hated_ correcting stuff in
- an electric typewriter. I learned to plan ahead so I never turned in
- anything but a first draft with a few white-outs over typos. When computers
- came along, I found out that I could write and enjoy it and make money
- at it.
-
- On the flip side, my SO is a law librarian with an MS in Information Science
- and is completely computer literate, but she has been writing friends and
- relations fifteen-page letters in longhand since she was seven. She does her
- letters on the computer, prints them, reviews them and makrs them up. She
- then goes back to the computer to put in the corrections. And she
- may go through this whole process again several times. I cannot even
- conceive of printing anything unless it's about to go into the
- envelope. But she finds it more comfortable to look at paper and be
- able to scribble on it. We both work in our own way, and I suspect this is
- a good example for the rest of the writers. There is no right way, just
- whatever you are comfortable with.
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