100K!!!! And Other Thoughts
November 11th 2009 12:36
Well, 110. But 100K is the victory here. I did the math and I'm only 3K behind where I need to be to hit 400K, but I'm more like 15K behind where I want to be, and I know I'm not going to really be able to make that up.
But this post is more about thoughts than that. It's more about the pep talk that I got last night and my thoughts on it. My thoughts on what was said.
The idea was that to write things by hand you have a better story, in a way, than if you type it on a computer screen. Of course, a number of things prevent me from writing much by hand, including the fact that it hurts my damaged wrist a lot more to write by hand than to type, and that I write by hand at less than half the speed. (Writing 1K, or if I'm lucky 1.5K in an hour and ten minutes rather than 3K in an hour)
To some extent I see the value of pen and paper. I have pages upon pages of worldbuilding and character building notes for Tamraq and other worlds, other stories, in my binders. Pages upon pages of things I have written out by hand. I have character sheets. I have sheets full of information about different Gods and different religious sects, and there is always more to be done. My brainstorming is all done with pen and paper.
I feel that writing via a computer, typing as it were, is just as valid as writing by hand. Linda says in her pep talk that the best scenes are things that can only come out when a person makes the action of writing by hand. Well, I can honestly say the most amazing things I have ever written, the most beautiful scenes which have moved me to tears as I write them, were all typed up, most of them during one November or another, though not all of them.
I feel that saying pen and paper are invalid is just as stupid as saying that a computer is invalid, or that an oldschool typewriter is invalid-no method of storytelling, oral or written, is invalid, it is all the same art. The only way a person invalidates their art, their storytelling, is by telling their story in chatspeak-and that goes no matter what method the person uses to get their words out.
Thoughts?
But this post is more about thoughts than that. It's more about the pep talk that I got last night and my thoughts on it. My thoughts on what was said.
The idea was that to write things by hand you have a better story, in a way, than if you type it on a computer screen. Of course, a number of things prevent me from writing much by hand, including the fact that it hurts my damaged wrist a lot more to write by hand than to type, and that I write by hand at less than half the speed. (Writing 1K, or if I'm lucky 1.5K in an hour and ten minutes rather than 3K in an hour)
To some extent I see the value of pen and paper. I have pages upon pages of worldbuilding and character building notes for Tamraq and other worlds, other stories, in my binders. Pages upon pages of things I have written out by hand. I have character sheets. I have sheets full of information about different Gods and different religious sects, and there is always more to be done. My brainstorming is all done with pen and paper.
I feel that writing via a computer, typing as it were, is just as valid as writing by hand. Linda says in her pep talk that the best scenes are things that can only come out when a person makes the action of writing by hand. Well, I can honestly say the most amazing things I have ever written, the most beautiful scenes which have moved me to tears as I write them, were all typed up, most of them during one November or another, though not all of them.
I feel that saying pen and paper are invalid is just as stupid as saying that a computer is invalid, or that an oldschool typewriter is invalid-no method of storytelling, oral or written, is invalid, it is all the same art. The only way a person invalidates their art, their storytelling, is by telling their story in chatspeak-and that goes no matter what method the person uses to get their words out.
Thoughts?
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