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MerryAnne, starbucks is cheaper than renting an office - ha, ha

posted by Azur on March 31, 2005 at 9:00 PM | link to this | reply

Benzinha, I know some people who find pen and paper the only way

posted by Azur on March 31, 2005 at 8:59 PM | link to this | reply

L.E.Gant , you are right about storing info. I just did that with all of the info and notes I gathered today. It is good for editing of course. On the other hand I think at the speed that I type which is faster than the speed that I write by hand.

posted by Azur on March 31, 2005 at 8:59 PM | link to this | reply

The computer is not really an aid to writing. But it does demand that we (as writers) concentrate on a much more limited vocabulary, and use that subset of the language better than ever before. One good thing about writing on computers - you can store all the bits you don't like for a while without building up box-loads of paper (I'm still digging through stuff written in the 50's, 60's and 70's - from the 80's on, it's been stored on diskette (so next task: move a few hundred FULL diskettes to DVD...))

posted by L.E.Gant on March 31, 2005 at 8:39 PM | link to this | reply

yup, May, I write a lot more and wrote better in my youth with pen andpaper

posted by benzinha on March 31, 2005 at 8:27 PM | link to this | reply

Love starbucks - too bad I don't have the bucks for it!
Douglas Adams once said that with the advent of computers he could write a LOT more - he never said if it was better though.

posted by MerryAnne on March 31, 2005 at 8:38 AM | link to this | reply

love starbucks

posted by poetjpb on March 31, 2005 at 6:39 AM | link to this | reply

I haven't read enough newspapers and such from earlier times to know... Homework time.

posted by cmoe on March 31, 2005 at 5:34 AM | link to this | reply