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Eva’s Byte #232: Longhand Silver
*Penned or pecked—what’s your favorite masterpiece of classic literature?
As of late, I’ve been electronically challenged. From a previous blog, “Sucking it Up”: On Thursday, September 5th, at 11:00 PM, I couldn’t for the life of me, get a picture on my TV set, necessitating I get a new one.
True Confession: I’ve only turned on the set once since acquiring it.
On Sunday, September 29th, at 9:30 AM, my computer technician carted my hard drive away to upgrade it.
True Confession: I started experiencing withdrawal symptoms hours before the designated time approached for me to sever ties with the Internet.
In my capacity as an Indie author, my PC is a lifeline to market and promote my published works. Of primary importance—for or each of my writing endeavors, the words pour from my heart and soul, creating a current for my fingers to tap dance along the keyboard, transferring story remnants to a Word document for safekeeping.
An avid reader, my vast Kindle library is also on my PC. Needless to say, not a page turned for the duration of my exile—only 24 hrs.
Although my presence on social media was curtailed, I managed to keep up my writing momentum the old-fashioned way: pen and paper.
Longhand!
In the process of finishing the draft for chapter 34 in my Work in Progress, I penned the last section in entirety. Sure it was more time consuming to compose mechanically without the electronic convenience of the “delete” key, but I managed. A fait accompli after two rewrites!
True Confession: For a fleeting moment, I felt a soulful connection to those beloved authors of yesteryear who produced the world’s most renowned classic literature, either penned or pecked on a typewriter.
My heartfelt thanks to Emily Brontë for penning one of the most moving novels I’ve ever read—Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell. Her solo published work is considered a classic in English literature.
Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
As of late, I’ve been electronically challenged. From a previous blog, “Sucking it Up”: On Thursday, September 5th, at 11:00 PM, I couldn’t for the life of me, get a picture on my TV set, necessitating I get a new one.
True Confession: I’ve only turned on the set once since acquiring it.
On Sunday, September 29th, at 9:30 AM, my computer technician carted my hard drive away to upgrade it.
True Confession: I started experiencing withdrawal symptoms hours before the designated time approached for me to sever ties with the Internet.
In my capacity as an Indie author, my PC is a lifeline to market and promote my published works. Of primary importance—for or each of my writing endeavors, the words pour from my heart and soul, creating a current for my fingers to tap dance along the keyboard, transferring story remnants to a Word document for safekeeping.
An avid reader, my vast Kindle library is also on my PC. Needless to say, not a page turned for the duration of my exile—only 24 hrs.
Although my presence on social media was curtailed, I managed to keep up my writing momentum the old-fashioned way: pen and paper.
Longhand!
In the process of finishing the draft for chapter 34 in my Work in Progress, I penned the last section in entirety. Sure it was more time consuming to compose mechanically without the electronic convenience of the “delete” key, but I managed. A fait accompli after two rewrites!
True Confession: For a fleeting moment, I felt a soulful connection to those beloved authors of yesteryear who produced the world’s most renowned classic literature, either penned or pecked on a typewriter.
My heartfelt thanks to Emily Brontë for penning one of the most moving novels I’ve ever read—Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, under the pseudonym, Ellis Bell. Her solo published work is considered a classic in English literature.
Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Eva’s Byte #237: Paper Tigers with Less Bite
Paper tigers, paper tigers,
Your roar is much worse than your bite—these days!
(Channeled from Sue Thompson’s Top-30 hit in 1965, “Paper Tiger”)
A writer who made my debut as an Indie author through the publication of Underlying Notes (Contemporary, 2008), I’d drafted the entire 238-page document on a legal pad. On the pay-as-I-go plan, I’d type each day’s word quota in Word. When I had finished the novel, I made a print copy of the manuscript in its entirety.
As Bob Dylan put it, “the times, how they are a changin’!”
Subsequently, I’ve drafted all other published works, and my WIP in Word.
This got me thinking about “paper tigers with less bite”—including, but not limited to:
Stenographer Pad – as endangered a species as the secretary writing down memos in shorthand for a chauvinistic boss focused on her bosom.
Spiral Notebook – a college student during the ‘70s, I recall writer’s cramp from trying to capture the professor’s train of thought in longhand.
Index Cards – with memory built in to our electronic devices, writing down recipes seems a foregone conclusion.
Our reliance on modern technology has rendered White Out obsolete.
And, 2-3-4—what do we need paper clips for?
Remember the stacks of print newspapers from yesteryear? Due to the Internet, there has been a steady decline in production.
Although I admit to adhering to many old-fashioned ways of doing things, I’ve gladly relinquished paper tigers for the convenience of having less clutter to deal with. Most importantly—the conservation of trees.
Eva’s Authors Den Page:https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
Your roar is much worse than your bite—these days!
(Channeled from Sue Thompson’s Top-30 hit in 1965, “Paper Tiger”)
A writer who made my debut as an Indie author through the publication of Underlying Notes (Contemporary, 2008), I’d drafted the entire 238-page document on a legal pad. On the pay-as-I-go plan, I’d type each day’s word quota in Word. When I had finished the novel, I made a print copy of the manuscript in its entirety.
As Bob Dylan put it, “the times, how they are a changin’!”
Subsequently, I’ve drafted all other published works, and my WIP in Word.
This got me thinking about “paper tigers with less bite”—including, but not limited to:
Stenographer Pad – as endangered a species as the secretary writing down memos in shorthand for a chauvinistic boss focused on her bosom.
Spiral Notebook – a college student during the ‘70s, I recall writer’s cramp from trying to capture the professor’s train of thought in longhand.
Index Cards – with memory built in to our electronic devices, writing down recipes seems a foregone conclusion.
Our reliance on modern technology has rendered White Out obsolete.
And, 2-3-4—what do we need paper clips for?
Remember the stacks of print newspapers from yesteryear? Due to the Internet, there has been a steady decline in production.
Although I admit to adhering to many old-fashioned ways of doing things, I’ve gladly relinquished paper tigers for the convenience of having less clutter to deal with. Most importantly—the conservation of trees.
Eva’s Authors Den Page:https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
