Like many writers, I prefer longhand to keyboard composition. There’s something natural and calming to holding a pen in one hand and head in the other, imagining away the day before a stack of paper. Like most writers I don’t have time for longhand composition. The great nemesis of creativity—work—limits writing time to minutes a day, except on the weekends. If I ever wish to get published, I have to do it with my hands in my lap. (I have a laptop that serves as my ersatz brain.) Editing, in my experience, is easier on a printed manuscript. The electronic world plays tricks on your eyes. We have to develop the skill to read on a screen. For over five thousand years writing was strictly hardcopy. Now it almost never is. When my novel, The Passion of the Titans , had been accepted by Vagabondage Press, I was elated. It has been a lifelong dream to have a novel published. Then the clouds rolled in. I had an emai...
Blog of a struggling writer.