Is something I would not say. None of the writing process is so dramatic. It’s boring to observe: it’s all yawning and staring off into empty space in front of you. I get the need for people to be poetic, though.
I’m Still Alive
“Barely. I’m spilling all over the pages, blood the color of graphite, gray soul spatters into the shape of letters.”
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I used to have a large library of notebooks and legal pads filled with my scratchings. Then I got a computer and some floppies and transferred most of it over. My papers were so poorly organized that I kept going back to previous documents and adding stuff. But once it was all done, I had a huge paper bonfire. Two my published books began life on those papers.
What made you use paper? Was this the time when laptops/tablets weren’t a thing yet?
I use a notebook because I didn’t want to carry around a 2nd laptop, other than my work one. But as I did analog writing I find it to be therapeutic and distraction-free, which is good for doing a solid first draft.
I got back into writing in a notebook this year and have found it very meaningful … something magical about writing with a pen on paper.
Do you use an actual pen? I couldn’t do that–I change my mind too much, mid-sentence. Hah.
I use a pen – though, with regret, on those days when I commit the most heinous of spelling errors.
Instead of erasing, I sometimes just cross the mistake out. My son (now 8) yelled at me for doing that once.