Back on line - bought myself another computer, in fact. So I now have two... never want to be without a second again; it was awful. Ok, so I am addicted.
And to think when I started writing seriously, I used a manual typewriter and an eraser. That's right. An eraser. They used to sell special typewriter erasers.
(There you are, now you know - I am so ancient, they didn't even have correction fluid back when I was young...)
I am now so broke, that I think I can lose weight. No money for food, you see. So If you see a new svelte me, blame my addiction to computers.
Seriously, I think having a computer and all those wonderful opportunities to revise, revise, revise, without retyping the whole thing, has made me (and probably everyone else too) a better writer. I would never want to go back to the good old days if I had to surrender my laptop...
About Me
- Glenda Larke
- Malaysia
- My life has been described by one of my editors as “impossibly exotic” – although really it is not my life, but me, that’s the exotic. I’m the uprooted plant, the exotic who doesn’t belong, always living in someone else’s backyard...
An Australian living in Malaysia. Writer, traveler, environmentalist. Author of The Isles of Glory trilogy (The Aware, Gilfeather, The Tainted); The Mirage Makers trilogy (Heart of the Mirage, The Shadow of Tyr, Song of the Shiver Barrens) and, writing as Glenda Noramly, a stand-alone book Havenstar. The latest trilogy is called The Watergivers in Australia and the Stormlord trilogy elsewhere: THE LAST STORMLORD, STORMLORD RISING, STORMLORD'S EXILE
Havenstar
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3 comments:
That is *fantastic*!!!!! And anyway, food is over-rated.
Yee haw! Go you! No more icky internet cafe!
I'm with you, Glenda. I couldn't bear to write without a 'puter these days. I actually know a few people who prefer to write by hand and then key the work in later, saying that their creativity is inhibited by a keyboard, but me, I wouldn't have the patience!
I've been feeling computer-deprived since I've been travelling as sometimes several days at a time go by when I can't get access to one. Terrible not to be able to check my e-mails and friends' blogs! I'm not writing at all, except to blog, but I look on travel as being process, even if the product is not going to manifest until some unspecified future date.
But as for food being over-rated, Karen, I ain't so sure. Given the choice of eating or writing, which would I choose? Hmmm...
If it came down to writing=starvation, or food? Hm. I'd probably end up eating the writing...
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