Sometimes I wonder; why would authors abandon the classic way of writing a book, with a quill and an inkpot over to adopt the new modern means like typing on a personal computer or a laptop or even tablets these days.
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'Change Is Inevitable..." this is what some well learned man said a few centuries back. And i believe we have no choice but to accept the fact that it is reality. Gone are the days when Shakespeare or Tolkien of the modern world would sit down with a Blue feathered Quill and dip it into the inkpot at regular intervals; and continue Writing! the book in true sense. We actually don't write the book any longer; but we rather Type. I am in a dilemma at times, when i send a daily word count to rahil from my blackberry. "2700 Words Written" Or "2700 Words Typed", Well i don't bother too much about it before sending though; but i face this quite often.
Rahil is very fast in his typing and is usually ahead of our set deadlines; yes! i am not being sarcastic. And well mine is usually the opposite; but i manage to finish typing before the deadlines altered over a period of time.
In the very inital stages of "The Awakenings", we both had managed to develop a habit of handwritng the book, but then eventually we realised that we needed more quicker completion of the chapters and a better saving of resources. Thanks to this, we can boast that our book is evironmentally concious strainght from its initial writing procedure.
But we miss the joy we got from hand-writing the book, it just felt so good. Hand-writing the book just gave a feeling that we were so very close to the magical world we had created. You hardly get this sort of satisfaction and feeling by typing into a Rahil's laptop's physical keyboard or Mine on-screen Playbook keyboard. But nevertheless, we have noticed an increase in our productivity and now we manage the elements of the book more effeciently.
Maybe we will try a hand at writing with a Quill and get the feeling, Shakespeare or Tolkien Got; Will Post If This Happens!
Signin Out.
2 comments:
Well.. That's an Interesting post but true nonetheless..
If I may add - I often read the chapters send by you on the relatively small cell phone display and sometimes even edit it via word editors on the mobile phones..!!
The writers really have evolved over time and the paperless way of writing is definitely a greener, quicker, and faster method. Moreover the added advantage on on-board spell and grammar check of MS Word and the synonyms function help better our writing.
The traditional way was rather flawed and tedious. The chapters/script needs to be changed several times, lines and paragraphs need to be added all the time and a lot of the text has to be discarded, shifted or modified to suit the story and beautify it. Rewriting again and again the same text on the conventional paper not only is time consuming but also results in destroys the nature slowly as more wood is cut for more paper. So evolution in the form of digitized writing was inevitable..
- Rahil.
A Nice And A Very Valuable Feedback Rahil, Thanks. It Was pleasing to share your views as well.
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