Comments on: I started writing by hand http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/ musings, thoughts, and writings of Barbara W. Klaser Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:17:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.3-beta1 Comment on I started writing by hand by: Anonymous http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-12877 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:04:58 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-12877 Hi Barbara, I also used to be an early crawler on paper. I especially favored crayons. Now the keyboard is my best friend and I write all day long every day. Monika Hi Barbara,

I also used to be an early crawler on paper. I especially favored crayons. Now the keyboard is my best friend and I write all day long every day.

Monika

]]> Comment on I started writing by hand by: Barbara W. Klaser http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1768 Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:10:33 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1768 Rhubarb, I consider "footnote" a four-letter word, no matter how you spell it. A few years after my school paper vigils I went on to do paste-up and layout of technical manuals (before I started writing them). Then it was permissible to use tape, correction fluid, X-Acto knives, rub-ons, blue pencils, and hot wax, as long as none of my manipulations showed up on the negative. Even then, a few little dots of red fluid at the printer's cleaned it up. I'm relieved I don't dream about the glare shining into my eyes from a light table. Computers are a blessing. So are digital cameras---I once worked in a photo-processing lab, and I still wonder what long term effects those chemicals had on me. Rhubarb, I consider “footnote” a four-letter word, no matter how you spell it. A few years after my school paper vigils I went on to do paste-up and layout of technical manuals (before I started writing them). Then it was permissible to use tape, correction fluid, X-Acto knives, rub-ons, blue pencils, and hot wax, as long as none of my manipulations showed up on the negative. Even then, a few little dots of red fluid at the printer’s cleaned it up. I’m relieved I don’t dream about the glare shining into my eyes from a light table. Computers are a blessing. So are digital cameras—I once worked in a photo-processing lab, and I still wonder what long term effects those chemicals had on me.

]]> Comment on I started writing by hand by: Rhubarb http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1767 Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:43:06 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1767 Do you remember typing papers that could not have errors that had been erased or whited out and re-typed? I still have nightmares. I think best of all is a keyboard. It's so much faster than pen on paper, that my fingers can keep up with my thoughts (not really, but faster than handwritten). By now, it's a straight-through process, eyes and brain and fingers. BTW You have been tagged with the "Habitual Meme." See my journal entry for today. It was an interesting exercise to thing over my habits and try to decide what would be unusual from someone else's point of view, since to me they seem eminently ordinary. Do you remember typing papers that could not have errors that had been erased or whited out and re-typed? I still have nightmares.

I think best of all is a keyboard. It’s so much faster than pen on paper, that my fingers can keep up with my thoughts (not really, but faster than handwritten). By now, it’s a straight-through process, eyes and brain and fingers.

BTW You have been tagged with the “Habitual Meme.” See my journal entry for today. It was an interesting exercise to thing over my habits and try to decide what would be unusual from someone else’s point of view, since to me they seem eminently ordinary.

]]> Comment on I started writing by hand by: violetismycolor http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1764 Sat, 21 Jan 2006 05:26:06 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1764 I remember the typewriter...in college it was my real nemesis. I had to type up all those papers and there were...let's say...mistakes made. Caused problems. You get the picture. I remember the typewriter…in college it was my real nemesis. I had to type up all those papers and there were…let’s say…mistakes made. Caused problems. You get the picture.

]]> Comment on I started writing by hand by: Reenie http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1763 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:09:48 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1763 This is a marvelous essay, Barbara. It spoke to me on so many levels – I’ll address one. Do not (I repeat) do not get new furniture. Well, I’ll allow you to get new furniture, but incorporate it with the old. As I read your essay, the descriptions of furniture touched my heart most. That is probably because a lot of our furniture once belonged to someone else in our families. I’ve always been a greedy recipient. It’s made my home a living scrapbook of sorts. Just about every piece of furniture levitates a cherished memory. I suspect yours does too – otherwise you couldn’t have written so masterfully about it. This is a marvelous essay, Barbara. It spoke to me on so many levels – I’ll address one. Do not (I repeat) do not get new furniture. Well, I’ll allow you to get new furniture, but incorporate it with the old.

As I read your essay, the descriptions of furniture touched my heart most. That is probably because a lot of our furniture once belonged to someone else in our families. I’ve always been a greedy recipient. It’s made my home a living scrapbook of sorts. Just about every piece of furniture levitates a cherished memory. I suspect yours does too – otherwise you couldn’t have written so masterfully about it.

]]> Comment on I started writing by hand by: cas http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1761 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:54:56 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1761 I remember them. My Mother bought me a used typewriter. of the same vintage. She got tired of me always using her new portable Smith-Corona - the one with tape covering all the letters and numbers. I remember them. My Mother bought me a used typewriter. of the same vintage. She got tired of me always using her new portable Smith-Corona - the one with tape covering all the letters and numbers.

]]> Comment on I started writing by hand by: Eric Mayer http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1749 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:40:07 +0000 http://barbarawklaser.mysterynovelist.com/2006/01/19/i-started-writing-by-hand/#comment-1749 There was something satisfying about the typewriter's physical manifestation of one's effort, the stately advance of the carriage, the encouraging ringing of the bell as the next "level" was reached. You could feel the keys hitting the platen through your fingertips, or so it seemed. I only recall my old Smith Corona manual portable, and it might be that was all I used up until I got my first computer about 1990. Yeah I was late. The only trouble with typewriters, they were unforgiving of non-typists like me. There was something satisfying about the typewriter’s physical manifestation of one’s effort, the stately advance of the carriage, the encouraging ringing of the bell as the next “level” was reached. You could feel the keys hitting the platen through your fingertips, or so it seemed. I only recall my old Smith Corona manual portable, and it might be that was all I used up until I got my first computer about 1990. Yeah I was late. The only trouble with typewriters, they were unforgiving of non-typists like me.

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