tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889215628007960117.post9087559648140923757..comments2024-03-21T19:29:26.241-07:00Comments on Storytelling in All its Forms: First Draft Completed ! Roman J. Martelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889215628007960117.post-88598511065508234972017-05-15T06:52:25.127-07:002017-05-15T06:52:25.127-07:00That's a good point. I had the pleasure of wri...That's a good point. I had the pleasure of writing on a typewriter for only a few assignments in Junior High and High School. In fact my term paper for Junior year was on an old Mac. My teacher actually thought I was trying to impress her by delivering a computer printed paper with perfect margins and the like. <br /><br />One of the first full pieces of fiction I wrote was a sprawling fantasy story for the school literary magazine. It seemed short to me, but when I finally saw the full magazine, i realized my work was about a long as the magazine. In any case, the whole thing was typed on an electric typewriter, which was slightly easer to use than an old manual one, but yeah, swapping sentences around would have been nearly impossible. I do love writing on a computer. :)Roman J. Martelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09545497713474664555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7889215628007960117.post-92073002114260396252017-05-14T11:58:20.369-07:002017-05-14T11:58:20.369-07:00Congrats. Yes, I agree that one’s vision is a litt...Congrats. Yes, I agree that one’s vision is a little blurry immediately upon finishing a first draft. It helps to rest the eyes before starting on a second.<br /><br />One of the great things about modern tech is how much less tedious it has made rewrites and edits. When everything was typed (or handwritten) on paper, rewriting a single sentence meant redoing an entire page if not more. Back in college I let a lot of things slide that I would have preferred to rephrase because it was too much trouble and there was too little time. Shakespeare – a somewhat better writer than I – notoriously hated doing it. “Hamlet” as written, for example, runs 5 hours, but nobody stages a 5 hour “Hamlet.” He didn’t. He staged a version half that length just as we do today; we don’t have his stage notes so we don’t know exactly what he did, but he probably just crossed out chunks on copies of the standard published version. Nowadays we can focus less on the mechanics and more on the verbiage.<br />Richard Bellushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108081864942272619noreply@blogger.com