tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941448881823813890.post234740687128970962..comments2023-10-15T07:38:02.325-07:00Comments on Tiffany Rambles: Reasons why I still write in notebooksTiffanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07637471374013879840noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941448881823813890.post-43897039105395140792011-12-04T09:44:00.669-08:002011-12-04T09:44:00.669-08:00I can't reply with a whole entry as to why I &...I can't reply with a whole entry as to why I "prefer" to type, but only because it's not that clear-cut for me. I grew up on longhand in an age where my house had one computer and had to be divided among the time of four, sometimes five, children, and that's when my mother wasn't on it for work or other official business. So it was practical and for the longest time, even after I was the only kid who still used the children's computer, even after I got my own laptop, I still kept notebooks and pens on me at all times. <br /><br />Since then things've changed. For some reason after I finished my basic combat training with the Army I spent more time writin on my laptop. I've stuck with it. What I can do after all is provide you with reasons why I've stuck with it. <br /><br />I get a better gauge of how my hard work registers in the hard copy. Too often I slave over a chapter or a passage and it's 10 pages long. When I type it up the shit's barely a page in Times New Roman and I'm left with a general feeling of dissatisfaction and as if I've been cheated of my hours of labor because it doesn't show in the hard line. <br /><br />Ease of research/references. The Internet is a wonderful thing. I can access it with one key on my laptop. When I'm buried in my notebook, getting references or looking up concepts or even brushin up my language becomes a task. Whether I use the Internet or hit the books, there's this whole institution of walkin around to get other shit that can easily distract me in the interim. Like food or TV or my mother. <br /><br />Timelessness. I never, ever delete files, not ever since I began transferrin my work to the computer. And I don't mess with em. So I can look back on the shit I wrote as a high school freshman or a middle schooler and oogle at how naiive and narrow my work was. Or get a brilliant new idea from readin an old short story. <br /><br />And last but not least I keep a file all on its own for ideas that may or may not come to fruition in one fashion or another someday. Fragmental ideas that pop into my head outta nowhere and full-blown ideas to evolve into novels in their own respects. <br /><br />Plus it's overall more organized. I have the Soul series book here, books that don't belong to the series here, others within, others without, research here, etc., etc. All those nifty notes in the margins, I keep bulleted now. :] Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com