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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: re: longhand
- Message-ID: <16217@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 11 Oct 92 04:11:40 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- Leanne Richard brings back fond memories...I was fortunate enough to marry a
- wife who can't stand the sound of a typewriter, so my first several novels
- started out in longhand; the transcription to typewriter waited until I could
- get her out of the house. Leanne's right; revision is easier when you're
- going from longhand to typescript. Now that I'm pathetically
- computer-dependent, though, I find I still prefer scrawling a rough outline
- in longhand rather than using all the bells & whistles my word processor
- offers in outlining.
-
- But hang in there, Leanne...the flexibility of the computer makes it almost
- as good as a scratch pad, and when pen-based computers come into their own,
- you'll be poised to exploit them!
-