tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post116067566159347276..comments2023-09-25T05:45:41.437-07:00Comments on The Art of Fiction: How I WriteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-1160822192710916132006-10-14T03:36:00.000-07:002006-10-14T03:36:00.000-07:00A few years ago I applied for a creative writing l...A few years ago I applied for a creative writing lecturer post, and had to "present" about my "research ideas". One of which was a paper on how the method of writing affects the end result. So On the Road's a big long roll of paper, Hemingway's terse sentences area caused by those clunky macho keys. I think that if you write poetry direct to screen it changes - because most people's screens are landscape rather than portrait, so you'll write longer lines, but shorter poems than you would in a notebook.Adrian Slatcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13946068316432524571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15916138.post-1160821531085063612006-10-14T03:25:00.000-07:002006-10-14T03:25:00.000-07:00I sometimes think my problem is that I don't quite...I sometimes think my problem is that I don't quite know HOW I work! I do love typing straight in and have written some nice things that way, and I have other things I've written draft after draft of, and others where I've sort of alternated.<BR/><BR/>I'd never dream of trying to write prose out longhand, these days.<BR/><BR/>And weren't we all impressed by all those movies, where people like Eugene O'Neill would get drunk and sit up till dawn bashing away on his old Remington?Ms Baroquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836227454899083962noreply@blogger.com