tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post4919806504437858045..comments2024-03-28T15:01:21.285-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Digitally YoursLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-2698185716368114062011-11-10T08:39:47.671-05:002011-11-10T08:39:47.671-05:00I'd almost forgotten, but I have local acquain...I'd almost forgotten, but I have local acquaintances who are are script-writers. They lined all four walls of a large bedroom with plain interior doors laid flat as work tables. I haven't calculated how many square meters of work space that is, but it's considerable.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-4259216452175014562011-11-09T19:25:58.823-05:002011-11-09T19:25:58.823-05:00"I haven't suggested this : I may be mad,..."I haven't suggested this : I may be mad, but I'm not yet suicidal." -- Buddy, I hear ya! lol<br /><br />This post is absolutely fantastic, Neil. But, I am surprised to learn you evidently only talk to yourself at such a late stage in the process. Maybe you're actually less childish than you fear. After all, like a kid talking himself through a section of reading, it seems I'm constantly muttering to myself all the way through my writing. <br /><br />And, no problem getting you into SF, buddy; since you're a cigarette smoker, we'll just make you a weapons man! No need to light time fuse in that job.<br /><br />One last thing I have to comment on:<br /><br />"My brain has a mind of its own." Gotta love it! <br /><br />--Dix<br /><br />PS: Let me know how the refectory table works out. I’ve got an axe & 3 trestle tables—and now you’ve got me eyeing the back wall of our dining room!Dixon Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11220791609338404147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-7585291859522721272011-11-09T14:05:02.764-05:002011-11-09T14:05:02.764-05:00Neil, thanks for the laughs and bringing back memo...Neil, thanks for the laughs and bringing back memories of my early writing. With today's computers it's Cut & Paste; back then it was Cut & Scotch Tape. No two pages of a first draft on yellow legal paper were the same length.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-45151993479527990522011-11-09T10:59:06.636-05:002011-11-09T10:59:06.636-05:00Delightful post, and not only the content but the ...Delightful post, and not only the content but the subtly British voice. We don't say "wodge" over here, but I wish we did. I resisted computers for a long time, but I've typed everything, even first drafts of poems, since the Sixties. In the old days, if I made a typo, I'd crumple up the spoiled sheet and toss it. Then I'd start over--and I almost always improved the poem as I retyped.Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-25544950162429943582011-11-09T10:46:26.379-05:002011-11-09T10:46:26.379-05:00Entertaining post. I agree with John– Why would an...Entertaining post. I agree with John– Why would anyone want to grow up?<br /><br />A friend who worked for Disney took over (and named) their Research and Documentation department. Previous workers used PCs to 'type' documents which they printed out and cut and pasted in graphics! Carol discarded antiquated equipment and ordered Macintoshes and large Lexmark Postscript printers. Sadly, a couple of years later the old boss returned, tossed out the newfangled Macs, and used the expensive Lexmark printers as large 'desktop' printers.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-73689630692948896952011-11-09T10:18:46.133-05:002011-11-09T10:18:46.133-05:00Neil -- Interesting post! It has always seemed to...Neil -- Interesting post! It has always seemed to me that moving from typewriters to computers was like moving from silent movies to "talkies." Some actors couldn't make the jump, some made it easily, and some had to struggle. Speaking personally, I had a much harder time pre-computer. As an attorney I would draft briefs double spaced on legal pads, then interlineate the briefs with edits until I could get no more on the page. Then I would give it to my secretary, interlineate her typed version, and do this at least one more time before the work was finished. When my office first got computers, back in 1987, I was the only attorney who requested one -- the others found the idea "demeaning." For me, the ability to move things around and have the work clear in front of me, to experiment and then un-do and then re-experiment, answered some of the drafting problems I had always encountered when writing in long hand. Within weeks I did not need a secretary at all.Dale Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10553503281187956955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-6167570410826830752011-11-09T10:16:21.394-05:002011-11-09T10:16:21.394-05:00Great column, Neil. I can relate to a lot of this...Great column, Neil. I can relate to a lot of this: computers that fill the whole room, laying pages out side-by-side to try to make sure everything works, talking to myself while I rewrite. As for growing up, I'm not sure I want to.John Floydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04001712728130488485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-2201785050820311462011-11-09T10:01:48.019-05:002011-11-09T10:01:48.019-05:00Good post. Your comments about spreading out the ...Good post. Your comments about spreading out the pages remind me of my sister's techniques with her novels. See the illustration here http://dianechamberlain.com/blog/2007/11/wip-the-color-coded-cards/Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.com