Thank you, Rebecca. This piece of experience kept coming back, always on the wings of those few words from the Odyssey. It happens, I think, to people who fuddle around with words (like you and me) -- we capture experience in words and phrases.
You can see that I write with pen and paper, too! Keyboards later in the process.
As a fellow fuddler, Mark, I absolutely relate! This was such a great piece, and the rosy-fingered dawn was absolutely shining bright.
Yay to pen and paper! I find such a difference when I write by hand versus typing straight onto the computer. Writing by hand slows me down, and my writing as a result is much more exploratory and more likely to go off-piste into areas and thought-corners that I hadn't known were even there to be tapped.
When I type I seem to lose several layers of my filter: the words land on the screen so quickly that I don't get the chance to explore where I might like them to go first. Until I started writing for pleasure I had considered my speed-of-light touch-typing ability to be only an advantage. Turns out it's only useful at the NEXT stage, when I'm typing up my handwritten draft! 🤣
Such wonderful writing, Mark. Thank you for sharing your process!
Thank you, Rebecca. This piece of experience kept coming back, always on the wings of those few words from the Odyssey. It happens, I think, to people who fuddle around with words (like you and me) -- we capture experience in words and phrases.
You can see that I write with pen and paper, too! Keyboards later in the process.
As a fellow fuddler, Mark, I absolutely relate! This was such a great piece, and the rosy-fingered dawn was absolutely shining bright.
Yay to pen and paper! I find such a difference when I write by hand versus typing straight onto the computer. Writing by hand slows me down, and my writing as a result is much more exploratory and more likely to go off-piste into areas and thought-corners that I hadn't known were even there to be tapped.
When I type I seem to lose several layers of my filter: the words land on the screen so quickly that I don't get the chance to explore where I might like them to go first. Until I started writing for pleasure I had considered my speed-of-light touch-typing ability to be only an advantage. Turns out it's only useful at the NEXT stage, when I'm typing up my handwritten draft! 🤣