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The Definition of a Writer · 5:15pm
I've heard it said that the difference between being a writer, and someone who writes... Is that the former can't /not/ write.
My computer's back in the shop to swap out a dodgy hard drive (for a new one 30 times the size), so that I'm keyboardless - my only input device is my phone's on-screen keyboard, impossible to touch-type with.
Yesterday, I finished visualising a scene, and couldn't /not/ write it - so, thumb-tap by thumb-tap, managed a couple of thousand words over a couple of hours. Maybe 15 wpm instead of a hundred, but it got typed out. ... And one of my pre-readers called it, IIRC, the liveliest in the story yet.
I once owned a clever little butterfly-folding keyboard for a PDA, no bigger than the pocket-sized device itself, but allowing full touch typing. If I ever find something of the sort for my current device, within my budget... I just might turn into that hipster writing his novel at the park, the coffee shop, the bus... :)
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You've been gone since October, 2012.
It's been 7 months now, so I guess that means you're not coming back, huh?
Requiescant in pace, scriptor.
Are you alright, man? Haven't seen anything new from you since October... is everything ok?
Thank you for the favorite.
I really dig your explanation between a writer and someone who writes. I, um, wrote 3/4 of million words last year? Oh God I have no life...
So I take it your computer is still in the shop?
EDIT: Well, I doubt that now. Should have looked at your blog first. Still working through writer's block?
While this long delay is starting to become slightly irritating, I still wish to thank you for what you have already written. Even if 115 is the last chapter of MGbKm, it will still have been a net positive utility. That said, I remain hopeful for a new chapter before 2014, would you be willing to give a probability estimate of that occurring?
DatA when are you going to update your story?
I miss your words. They were good words.
Thanks for the watch. You have an awesome bio. Very sophisticated indeed. I'm surprised you like my ridiculous story.
Eh, what the hell, I'll follow you too. Hmm, Forevermore is offering to bounce ideas hmm...?
A thread I came up with awhile back, several of them might interest you. Also feel free to add any of your own.
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