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
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Oct 06, 2019 12:27PM
Good for you. You didn't allow a technical glitch to keep you away from your work. Pen to paper often produces a closer connection with our characters.
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Pamela wrote: "Good for you. You didn't allow a technical glitch to keep you away from your work. Pen to paper often produces a closer connection with our characters."Pamela, I had written my first novel entirely in longhand spurts before typing in Word.
