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30/9/14 20:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomyI am writing the Current WIP longhand.
There are a few advantages to this (now that I have a good fountain pen, and won't give myself tendinitis like I did in Japan -- hooray for ergonomics!)
-I can treat every word as something provisional, something I'm going to have to toss away anyway, if only to retype it.
-I get to give myself little milestones along the way, of filling up a notebook, of running out of ink in my pen and changing the ink.
-I don't have to get quite so hung up over numbers and word count -- 'About two pages, almost every day' is comfortingly vague. (I'm not sure it's going to be good for my own sense of pacing -- hopefully I won't find out that it's way under or over the page count I was looking for, once I type it up!)
There is one big disadvantage.
I had forgotten, for a time, about the notebooks that I lost in transit when I moved back from Japan. But longhand makes it very hard to follow the principle of 'if you don't have three copies, you don't have any.' There's fire and floods and my own scatter-brained-ness to contend with.
I wonder how much trouble it would be to scan in every page and email it to myself. I wonder if the copies would be clear enough to retype from. I wonder if I'm worrying too much about this.
There are a few advantages to this (now that I have a good fountain pen, and won't give myself tendinitis like I did in Japan -- hooray for ergonomics!)
-I can treat every word as something provisional, something I'm going to have to toss away anyway, if only to retype it.
-I get to give myself little milestones along the way, of filling up a notebook, of running out of ink in my pen and changing the ink.
-I don't have to get quite so hung up over numbers and word count -- 'About two pages, almost every day' is comfortingly vague. (I'm not sure it's going to be good for my own sense of pacing -- hopefully I won't find out that it's way under or over the page count I was looking for, once I type it up!)
There is one big disadvantage.
I had forgotten, for a time, about the notebooks that I lost in transit when I moved back from Japan. But longhand makes it very hard to follow the principle of 'if you don't have three copies, you don't have any.' There's fire and floods and my own scatter-brained-ness to contend with.
I wonder how much trouble it would be to scan in every page and email it to myself. I wonder if the copies would be clear enough to retype from. I wonder if I'm worrying too much about this.
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1/10/14 05:26 (UTC)Best back-up drive I have is one that doesn't need external power. Plug in and drag files across I can do. Unplug something from wall, plug into wall, plug into computer, switch on - and I've already decided it's too much effort. Same principle.
(I prefer electronic words. I loved ditching notebooks when I got my iPhone - much easier to keep current rather than go 'new words or typing up old ones?')