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29 May 2009 @ 03:36 pm
Writing Longhand  
You kids and your fancy typing robots.



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Eddy Webb: Evil (The Master)[info]eddyfate on May 29th, 2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
FEAR MY TYPING ROBOT ARMY!
Scarletboi[info]scarletboi on May 29th, 2009 08:29 pm (UTC)
I, for one, welcome our typing robot overlords.

I write so much slower than I type AND it's illegible. :P
Justin Achilli[info]jachilli on May 30th, 2009 07:29 pm (UTC)
I actually have pretty decent handwriting, when I slow down and keep it reasonable. My quick-dash penmanship is pretty squirrelly, though.

Edited at 2009-05-30 07:30 pm (UTC)
wordwill[info]wordwill on May 30th, 2009 04:37 pm (UTC)
You're right to cut that line, in there.

I was thinking about doing a week of handwritten posts, in response to something Wendig said about my handwriting. We could make a handwriting day of it instead, a la Talk Like A Pirate. The Internet seems to love theme days. (Today is Orange Ring-sleeve T Day, and tomorrow's Hawaiian Shirt Day, I think.)

Something happened in the last 90-100 days, and I've been writing notes and outlines and fiction fragments longhand like crazy. Notebooks are filling up. It's nice to see things not totally disappear when you cut them, for a change. Feels more in touch with my own progress from idea to thing.

You once said something mean about my writing and it still rears up and bites me, sometimes, when I'm just trying to get an idea fucking down in my notebook. So thanks for that.
Justin Achilli[info]jachilli on May 30th, 2009 07:28 pm (UTC)
I find it hard to believe that I might have once said something mean. What was it?
wordwill[info]wordwill on June 4th, 2009 02:05 am (UTC)
Said out loud and regarded coolly in good lighting, it doesn't seem like much. But you said it mean enough that Ken C., after having been gone awhile, flinched and said he'd forgotten just how mean it got. I remember thinking that a hit that'd make Ken flinch should've spiderwebbed my skull.
rogue_hc_tiger[info]rogue_hc_tiger on May 30th, 2009 06:59 pm (UTC)
And I thought I was the only person left who does all their writing by hand...

at least at first.