tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post5507416021601185430..comments2024-01-11T03:14:22.238-08:00Comments on The Weekly Rader: The Technology of Craft: Cormac McCarthy's TypewriterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-37313545479813127972009-12-02T07:35:17.678-08:002009-12-02T07:35:17.678-08:00Putting my YA novel into a cell phone text novel s...Putting my YA novel into a cell phone text novel style with a max of 160 characters per entry changed my writing style. No more run-on, convoluted sentences.Andie Pandiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14799153396554710425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-91472537864152485842009-12-01T16:02:49.854-08:002009-12-01T16:02:49.854-08:00Clack, clack, clack, clack, ding! I love old typew...Clack, clack, clack, clack, ding! I love old typewriters and I have an ancient Royal that still works. It takes actual effort to depress the keys. When I was writing on it regularly -- remember letters? actual letters on paper that were sent through the postal service? -- I had forearms like Yannick Noah's!<br /><br />But if it is true that form follows function in regards to writing instruments, why did Benjamin Franklin write such long, elaborate prose when he had to do such with a quill pen? It needed refilling every other word, and it needed sharpening after each page. It seems he would have written short, terse sentences to make life easier.<br /><br />Perhaps composing with a quill pen took so much time that Ben was able to fill in his sentences with more thoughts and asides and connections. Now writing technology approaches the speed of our thoughts, so there is no time to develop a sentence between the moment of its conception and the moment of its inscription.Scott Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01185977061159785550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2951678752723387451.post-35814686842613685122009-12-01T16:00:24.399-08:002009-12-01T16:00:24.399-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Scott Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01185977061159785550noreply@blogger.com