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A weird thing has just occurred to me, which is, in and of itself, not weird or even unusual. I was looking at this clip of colour footage of London from, like, a gajillion years ago - well, okay, 1927. To give you a sense of what that means:

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So what I'm curious about is: how will the change from analogue to digital affect our creative brains. And what will that mean for the stories we tell, ordering Alprazolam online cheap. I ain't saying we're going to make bad stories, cheap Alprazolam online legally. I'm just wondering what will be different about how we do stuff and make stuff and feel about the whole thing. Alprazolam pills, In terms of writing...

My Dad writes everything longhand. He actually sits with a pen and scribes it all, and my mother types it, order Alprazolam pills. Ordering Alprazolam online cheap, Aside from being a frankly awe-inspiring gestalt, it's a very traditional process.

I, on the other hand, am typing this on the keyboard of a moderately up-to-date MacBook. Upstairs, there's a somewhat decrepit iMac with an ergonomic keyboard. On the other hand, next to the iMac, there's a teetering pile of paper notebooks filled with scribblecharts and flowcharts and uncharted waters of my brain, so I'm kinda in the middle, maybe.

I can absolutely see how it would be possible to write something without ever using a pen. And indeed, for some of my short pieces, I've done exactly that. On the other hand, I thought I might get an old typewriter for some future quasi-pulp project, and then scan the finished document into my computer later.

Thoughts, anyone. Or (please) references for the brain stuff.

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  • Matt Keefe said on November 9th, 2009:

    I write almost exclusively by keyboard. The need to resort to pens, pencils and paper occurs about once a month at most, and as often as not solely because I want to stop staring at a screen, or am somewhere I can’t use a computer. All the things people typical describe as ‘easier by hand’ – like your flowcharts, scribbled diagrams, and so on – I do on computer: I create tables in Word and fill in the cells in oblique ways, or I open Photoshop or InDesign when I want a visual reference or to move pieces around. When I wish to do this, reflexively I always go for the computer. I may be about as old as you can be without having any kind of pen-and-paper reflex (I’m 28).

    You can quite easily write out your pulp stories conventionally, on a computer, and make them look typewritten later. I can show you how to do this if you wish. I’d even wager that no one would know the difference, short of seeing a printout beside the original typewritten one.

  • Nick Harkaway said on November 9th, 2009:

    I think the point for me would be that I’d be using the old machine – vibe, mood etc. – rather than the product being a bit shonky and typewritten-lookin’.

    That’s slightly by-the-by, though: I’m curious about the brain-states thing, and what it might mean in terms of the, er, [mutters, shuffles feet] nature of the creative life.

    Um. Which is not the kind of thing I say a lot.

  • Clare D said on November 9th, 2009:

    I heard once that some people can tell if a piece of writing is written straight into the computer or transcribed from long hand – apparently the pattern of the words in the sentences changes or something.

    I thought I’d test this out on a class (I was teaching creative writing at the time) but no one could guess which was which (from excerpts of people who wrote straight in and those that didn’t). So maybe only experts can tell.

    Another difference which I think is interesting is that some writers, apparently, write by speaking into the computer – I don’t think I could do that. I think the thought processes/brain activity/creativity would be entirely different.

  • Natty said on November 10th, 2009:

    I find it difficult to do any creative writing on the computer. I sit there staring at the blank screen with a blank brain. But with a pen in my hand and some lined paper in front of me, words come. Not necessarily good words, or stuff that makes a huge amount of sense when I read it back, but at least it’s there to be read. Then I can type it up and mess around with it.

  • Courtney said on November 13th, 2009:

    I got my first hand-me-down computer when I was about 8, and I am 29 now, so I basically grew up with the machine and always had one. I rarely wrote anything longer than a couple pages on paper for school, and consequently my thought process is keyboard-based. When I am doing something with a formal intention, fiction, poetry, what have you, I much prefer the computer, which keeps up better with my thought process. That said, if I am traveling, journaling, both by necessity and by comfort, I prefer to write in a notebook. It slows me down and I like to be slowed down at that time, when I am recording things I have seen them.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if people could tell… we are very spare with our words compared to 70 or 100 years ago. I think far more impatient as well.

  • Foz Meadows said on November 15th, 2009:

    Mostly, I type. There are times when I sit bolt upright at 3AM, or when I’m out and about sans computer, or when a particular narrative voice begs to be scribed in pen, that prompt the use of a notebook. Otherwise, it’s keyboard all the way.

    But there’s one notable exception to this: story planning. When I’m jotting down ideas about characters, backhistories, their relationships to one another, how old so-and-so is, what age a mother was when she had her child, all that jazz – then, I find computers frustrating. Their appeal is that I can set everything neatly out in a table; the downside is that, compared to just drawing on a page, this is more difficult to do than just writing, and I end up putting more energy into making the layout symmetrical than into the actual content, which becomes distracting. I’m messy-brained enough to still find this approach attractive, because when I do flop down on the carpet with an art book and some coloured pencils to sketch (badly) some faces or figure histories, the end result is visually all over the place. But I get it all down, and I think more about what I create, because simply using my hands to make this line, that shape is easier than going through menus and programs on a computer to achieve the same thing.

    So: if I’m worldbuilding, it’s easier to throw stuff out by hand, then gather it up later and put the polish on in a digital format. Like carding spun wool. Or something.

  • Colin said on November 20th, 2009:

    I write a lot better with pen – but it has to be the RIGHT pen, dammit. And finding those are hard. I get about a page and then my hand becomes too sore to continue.

    Also, I’m curiously reluctant to actually transcribe the damn thing on to computer. Possibly because I would then be able to actually read it. The cryptic spidercrawl on the page looks very profound, despite being completely illegible.

    At the same time, I was the groundbreaking geek in our high school who printed his creative writing efforts. Much to the dismay of the teacher who said it was “unfair” to the other students. I pointed out that the marks I got hadn’t changed – it was still straight A+s. Their marks also hadn’t changed – they were getting Ds and Fs. He conceded the point, and said my handwriting was “godawful anyway”, so I got a special exemption to print my stuff from then on.

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