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lin robinson · 20th July 2007, 05:19 PM

Not a problem for me. I HATE editing, cutting and rewrite and prefer to soar blissfully through beams of creative sunshine and towering clouds of my own genius.

My main tool for initial "grab" has become the tiny, hand-held digital recorder I bought for like $20 on eBay. God, what a great tool. If it only had a foot pedal pause switch.

I am beginning to wish it was a little bigger and looked like a cell phone so I wouldn't get so many odd looks jabbering into it in restaurants or beachfront bars. Though maybe it wouldn't be so good for them to think I'm on a phone when I'm saying something like "OK, so he kills her then gets the hell out, leaving the body and calls Reinholdt to come over and clean up."

I tend to get a real buzz of stuff coming in--word for word, if you know what I mean--when I'm in rhythmic motion. So you can see me kicking my bicycle to the curb, jumping off and fumbling out my always-present gizmo and babling into it there by the road.

I wish it was waterproof because I really get buzzed while swimming. Twice this week I swam out a quarter mile and got outside the reef...then suddenly got a big flood of way cool fodder for the story. So I churn back, trying to keep it all straight until I can get back to my bike, get my unit, and grab a table in the bar with a drink and dump it into the chip.

I long ago figured out I can't go back to a typewriter. Now I'm thinking I can't really work without my digity doo. When I reflect that shakespeare wrote all his work by scratching it out with a feather dipped in ink it fills me with shame and the certainty that I am a pampered puss. But I live with it.

Inner editors, like most editors I've come upon, can go eat my shorts, is my basic orientation.

20th July 2007, 05:19 PM	#11 (permalink)
lin robinson Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: SOUTH AMERICA Posts: 485	Re: Finding the 'off' switch Not a problem for me. I HATE editing, cutting and rewrite and prefer to soar blissfully through beams of creative sunshine and towering clouds of my own genius. My main tool for initial "grab" has become the tiny, hand-held digital recorder I bought for like $20 on eBay. God, what a great tool. If it only had a foot pedal pause switch. I am beginning to wish it was a little bigger and looked like a cell phone so I wouldn't get so many odd looks jabbering into it in restaurants or beachfront bars. Though maybe it wouldn't be so good for them to think I'm on a phone when I'm saying something like "OK, so he kills her then gets the hell out, leaving the body and calls Reinholdt to come over and clean up." I tend to get a real buzz of stuff coming in--word for word, if you know what I mean--when I'm in rhythmic motion. So you can see me kicking my bicycle to the curb, jumping off and fumbling out my always-present gizmo and babling into it there by the road. I wish it was waterproof because I really get buzzed while swimming. Twice this week I swam out a quarter mile and got outside the reef...then suddenly got a big flood of way cool fodder for the story. So I churn back, trying to keep it all straight until I can get back to my bike, get my unit, and grab a table in the bar with a drink and dump it into the chip. I long ago figured out I can't go back to a typewriter. Now I'm thinking I can't really work without my digity doo. When I reflect that shakespeare wrote all his work by scratching it out with a feather dipped in ink it fills me with shame and the certainty that I am a pampered puss. But I live with it. Inner editors, like most editors I've come upon, can go eat my shorts, is my basic orientation.