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Does /llit/ write on paper or use word processing?

>> No.4620725

Manual Olivetti typewriter.

>> No.4620738

i like writing by hand. typing is a lot faster, though.

>> No.4620755
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4620755

got a smith corona galaxie (middle left) that i use, along with two electrics and a 99 year old underwood upright.

really want a portable even though using a typewriter in public is social fucking suicide

>> No.4620758

>>4620720
word processing. I guess its a matter of preference but idk why anybody would handwrite anything they plan on revising. It's such a waste of time to edit and rerewrite

>> No.4620767

>>4620755
A line of trash.

>> No.4620769

emacs and latex

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>>4620720
for most purposes, i just write on whatever is most easily available to me
sometimes that's analog, sometimes that's electronic
if what i'm writing is very personal, though, it goes on paper. only way i can save it for longer than a couple of hours and not get noided.

>> No.4620786

>not typing everything on a colemak mechanical keyboard
>not typesetting with latex
stay pleb /lit/

>> No.4620886

>>4620767
i dont really give a shit, i fucking hate word processors

i've started the same paragraph to the same story at least 15 times in my shitty handwriting and on my typewriters, and I could only get the first sentence down in word before my mind went blank.

i suck as is and word processors amplify it like a magnifying glass

>> No.4620889

Who the fuck writes on paper?

>> No.4620914

>>4620786
>latex
>not typesetting with brass

>> No.4620920

>write on paper
>edit and finalize in digital format

dead simple

>> No.4620928

>>4620926
fucking lel

>> No.4620926

>>4620920
Fucking die.

>> No.4620961

>>4620914
brass is deprecated

>> No.4620989

>>4620758
because they generally hand write and then transcribe onto a computer while simultaneously editing. makes perfect sense to me, anyway.

>> No.4620994

>>4620989
You're a fucking idiot and you have it backwards. You're supposed to write on computer, print work out, (so you have a better idea of how it reads on the page) and then hand-edit. You gay fag.

>> No.4621011

>>4620994
waste of paper. Things don't read differently "on paper" than they do in a digital format. Just export to pdf or use latex for good typesetting and read like that if you don't like word processor formatting.

Unless you like marking up the pages with editing marks, this is fine.

>> No.4621019

>>4621011
>waste of paper
Are you saying you care about trees or money?

>don't read differently "on paper" than they do in a digital format
Are you joking

>> No.4621137

She was somewhat shorter than me, so I had to jerk my head sideways and crane it downward slightly to align with her eyes. Eye contact. Locked-on. Constant, conscious effort. Her deadset gaze; her eyes were opaque reflections of me, like mirrors glazed over with steam. Her eyes terrifyingly blank, beyond sadness, having leaked all their morose moisture into the canyons of discontent encircling them. Spectral eyes that saw me, and saw through me, as though I wasn’t there, as if even my deceit and ill nature in being there was no matter anymore… and I felt so painfully alienated by her presence, a feeling far worse than ever felt being alone. I could not speak, but only stare back, seeking the slightest semblance of sympathy, something I could see myself in, something that made *sense*.

>> No.4621141

>>4621137

Wrong thread, stab me in the face.

>> No.4621144

>>4621137
>>4621141
link the thread

Also I find your writing pretentious and unnatural, something that makes people want to stop reading.

>> No.4621155

>>4621144

Thread here >>4620094

I hope I did that right.

You can listen to the whole thing here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rzubnigazvfz2n1/Prologue.mp3

Or you can read it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wyuo5t84qo2ip1t/Prologue.pdf

>> No.4623099

I use word processors for both writing and editing. It's just faster and more efficient.

>> No.4623103

has a book ever come out as an audiobook only, like the author just talked the book into a recorded and that was it

>> No.4623148

Both of them. I write it out on paper, make corrections, type it out on my computer, print it out, make corrections on that, type it up, rewrite it on paper, correct it, type it up, make corrections untill I'm satisfied.

>> No.4623197

I used to feel like typing something out on a computer lacked the "intimacy" of writing on paper. I basically couldn't write anything (fiction, essays, etc) without putting it on paper first. I always edited on computers/using word processors though.

I don't even remember how I got over that, but now, I realize that kind of thinking is both wildly idealistic and outdated, and I usually only write using word processors (usually Notes for iPhone/Mac). Sometimes when I'm at school and don't have a computer in front of me and don't want to use my phone, I'll write something on paper.