Do you always use the computer to write?
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Re: Do you always use the computer to write?
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Later of course I did all my writing on a portable that served me through college. And then, working for a newspaper, back to the big old Underwood.
I however worked on computers early, in chemical research (I was a chem major and English lit major, go figure), and began to use computers for writing pretty quickly.
Boy, do I love my laptop!! When I write a chapter of my novels (2 published, 3rd in progress) I'll write "Ch 4a" and save it, then if I want to make revisions, it gets saved as "Ch 4b" then "Ch 4c" and so on. That way I'll have maybe 3-4 versions of a dialogue or plot sequence, all similar but different, and later I can pick and choose among them to create the "final" version, ha ha. I laugh at "final" because I'm never finished making revisions until the book goes to print.
Anyway, I'm a fast typist and write so much more freely with a computer. Plus I've got a badly warped manuscript style, so awful that sometimes I can't decipher what I've written down on a notepad!
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Consider the publishing business. Everything's on computers now. Agents and editors for the most part don't even accept manuscripts. So I think it's probably best to move to computers for everything.
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