I was asked “how do you physically do your writing?”
Well, it’s the connection between the hand and the brain really and
I don’t send in my manuscripts in longhand.
It’s the first contact with the idea is me and the page and I mean I can even go even further into that as I write by pencil and I have an eraser on the
pencil and so I erase that, it’s a very primitive form of cut and paste really and I do that and it just suits me really. But, at the same time, it is laborious and I wouldn’t really recommend it to anybody.
If you can write fluently onto a keyboard that’s fine, and of course you’ve got all the wonderful facilities of it. But, I grew up when you know I was writing, when it was type writers and that you had to… It didn’t even have an erase facility on that. You know, if you make a mistake on a page, you
really had to use Tipex and rub it out and I used to do that and I found, when I type in those days, I would well, keep constantly wanted to change it, because I see for the first time. So, I developed a system with my wife where I would write in longhand that I have very poor handwriting as it happens… and she is one of the few people in the world who can actually
read it and she would put it on the screen and then I would look at
it and I was like in a way looking for it at the first time and it would then hit me really and I would see whether it was working or wasn’t working, how valid it was. And then I would print off that draft and then I would work on the draft by hand and then I can give it to her back.
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Philip Martin
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