tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post1555634361251575497..comments2023-10-02T15:17:53.960+01:00Comments on West Pier Words: The left, right, left right of writingDOThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00719312854612984929noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post-15355317699238384562007-07-01T12:57:00.000+01:002007-07-01T12:57:00.000+01:00It is interesting how we individually find our own...It is interesting how we individually find our own means of building the wall, my metaphor for constructing a novel, dissertation or anything of length; it does seem to me to be exactly that, something that is assembled brick by brick. <BR/><BR/>The same is true of generating ideas, Zinnia. Having spent so many years in advertising I know how I best think laterally and the mind games I need to play. Equally I respect that other people set about the same task very differently. I suppose all I am saying is that each of us has to discover the means that best suit us and that can take some time, indeed, what suits one day may not be the most appropriate the next.DOThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00719312854612984929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post-46160094673481406302007-06-30T17:59:00.000+01:002007-06-30T17:59:00.000+01:00I nearly agree with you - but I do think it's poss...I nearly agree with you - but I do think it's possible to use techniques to generate creative ideas, in fact I know it is because I do it most days. Mindmapping and freewriting are two that I use frequently. <BR/><BR/>I'm hopeless in longhand, probably because I'm left-handed. I took to keyboards in the early 1980s with a great sense of relief, and have never looked back. The only things I write in longhand now are greeting cards, shopping lists and cheques.Zinnia Cyclamenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04841314997513292477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post-31337344480042873682007-06-26T11:01:00.000+01:002007-06-26T11:01:00.000+01:00Dot - I write longhand because my head doesn't pro...Dot - I write longhand because my head doesn't process info the same if I use two hands to type. I can't seem to be as creative. I also doodle a lot when I write. And I put two lines on a page and then start again, and again, and again. It is dreadfully time consuming and messy, and I've tried to be 'good' and type in an orderly fashion, in neat straight lines, but my head won't let me. I don't go so much as left right left right, as up down round and round and flip flop fly away!<BR/><BR/>I think it drives my supervisor to distraction that my poor novel is in such a mess, but like my MA dissertation before it, it'll all come 'write' in the end. :)<BR/><BR/>Will come and explore your blog a bit more when I get a chance, but have to go teach now!<BR/><BR/>A bientot!hesitant scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11882920406681074895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post-25359604105509684922007-06-25T20:59:00.000+01:002007-06-25T20:59:00.000+01:00Hi dot,I found writing in longhand was more akin t...Hi dot,<BR/><BR/>I found writing in longhand was more akin to the act of reading strangely and ideas do seem to flow. <BR/>It also gets you away from the dreaded wordcount tool, a compulsion in itself.<BR/>Trouble is you have to type the bugger up then! :-)Jon Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04299901366453310075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post-43738652914446758422007-06-22T17:26:00.000+01:002007-06-22T17:26:00.000+01:00REMY!!! I am so excited to hear from you again. Go...REMY!!! I am so excited to hear from you again. Goodness me and you have two young girls now. My two, if you remember them, are grown up now and one has a baby girl of her own.<BR/><BR/>I will have to think how to get in contact with you more directly.<BR/><BR/>Big hug from me.DOThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00719312854612984929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6950924071957988310.post-43905723853247615772007-06-22T16:28:00.000+01:002007-06-22T16:28:00.000+01:00dear david,im writing you in longhand, beause i ca...dear david,<BR/>im writing you in longhand, beause i cant do it in shorthand anyway.<BR/>my english in written is as bad as your token french. but my token french will never be so good as your written english. my written french is so bad as my german. but even my token germann cant compete with your written english. but this is not important because the important thing behind is the idea. remember? thats the language we were talking, when we were working togheter.<BR/>i just dicovered your blog after i have spend a weekend in paris with my two girls 9and 11. we looked at the notre dame and i was talking about the old times. what a funny coinsidence. however you are right, even after working all thes years as a "creative" its still hard to get a great idea, but even harder making others belive in it.<BR/>and its not the shorthand work wich we do all day witch is making it great, only a little better.<BR/>big hug from zürich<BR/>remy fabrikantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com