tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post761020246783310154..comments2023-10-27T07:29:26.285+00:00Comments on Polyolbion: Room for debateMatt Merritthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-26105644588417612912007-03-14T09:10:00.000+00:002007-03-14T09:10:00.000+00:00I tend to agree. On the other hand, part of the th...I tend to agree. On the other hand, part of the thing about personal preferences is that they're just that - it's a bit of a lucky charm type of thing. I don't suppose it does any harm always using a particular pen or type of paper - if it relaxes you and puts you in the frame of mind for writing, it's doing its job.<BR/>It's a bit like the little rituals sportsmen have to get themselves in 'the zone'.Matt Merritthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12371656447328595720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3270024178512866290.post-46075997759355135672007-03-13T23:22:00.000+00:002007-03-13T23:22:00.000+00:00what strikes me is that most so-called great novel...what strikes me is that most so-called great novels couldn't have been written on a pc... as far as i know there never was a Pentium Imperial for Dickens to buy... and how do we know that some of todays pc written novels may not in the future be regarded as great... maybe two hundred years from now, some geezer will mention in the paper that people should use the old fashioned pc, as no great novel has ever been written on the holostylus....i write on whatever i have handy.... and lets be honest with ourselves.... most of us may rewrite our firt drafts, then rewrite again, and again, and edit here and there... but an awful lot of us end up resigning the early versions to the shredder... if only due to lack of space... wheres the difference between destroying the written word in the papier mache bucket, and deleting the words from the screen...Kirk Wisebeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12868390745287136323noreply@blogger.com