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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

but it you were a novelist how would you write? Typewriter, computer, pen on yellow legal pad, bound notebooks, etc...?

Rachel said...: I'm scattered enough that it would start with notes on random things, whatever I could get my hands on when an idea popped into my head, like napkins or receipts or somthing like that (I already do this with ideas for work). I would use a typewriter to compile the ideas because I once saw Woody Allen do that in the movie "Deconstructing Harry" and I liked it. But whenever I would actually type things out it would be on the computer. It would also be in about twenty different formats in twenty different locations, which I would eventually have to compile, probably on a flash drive, one per book, a false name written on the side (like they do when they shoot movies and they don't want you to know what they're really shooting). When I'd get stuck, I would use a moleskin to think up new ideas, sketch things, free writing, that sort of thing, until I could get back to work. I would have to write my final copy on a separate computer because I'd get tired of the one I'd been using and would associate it with all the work and frustration I'd already endured.; April 13, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Anonymous said...: thousands of tiny moleskine notebooks; July 3, 2008 at 4:33 PM

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