[HPFGU-OTChatter] How do you write?

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

> My question is how do you write? Can you compose better at a computer
> letting your fingers fly over the keys, or in a notebook scratching
> erasing and marking things out with your pencil or pen?  Do you write
> longhand or shorthand, inside or out, at night or in the morning...???

I started hammering out my stories on a typewriter when I was about twelve,
and never looked back (which is why I now type at about 120 wpm!).  Until I
was seventeen, me, my stories, and the typewriter were all heavily covered
with Liquid Paper.

Then I got a computer and was MUCH happier, because it allowed me to indulge
my passion for re-working every sentence and paragraph until it glows (IMO
anyway) before going on to the next one.  I now write exclusively on the
computer, and find working with pen and paper to be extremely frustrating
and limiting.  Probably because I am a naturally neat person and I hate
crossing things out, writing in the margins, etc.  (Although, also being an
artist, I doodle a great deal as well.)

I used to get all my best ideas late at night, but then I got married, and
got into the habit of going to bed of going to bed before 10 p.m. every
night.  And now that we have a baby, that's pretty much written in stone.
So now I just write when I can, and hope for the best.
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Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj