Resisting the siren call

[pjthompson]

Purchasing news of the day:

I managed to resist the siren call of connectivity and went for the plain Jane word processing-only Alphasmart Neo. I should have it in my hot little hands by midweek next week. No more longhand at lunch! Yipppeee!

We'll see if it really makes any difference in my word count. Some days (as today) the words just refuse to come, longhand, keyboard or not. But I'm hoping. I'm a very hopeful girl.

Book news of the day:

I'm reading Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel right now. Fascinating true crime story. This guy was with LAPD for twenty-three years, a Homicide detective for many years, and when he was going through his father's papers after daddy kicked the bucket, he got a unpleasant surprise—and became obsessed with solving a fifty year old (at the time) murder. His own siren, I suppose. He writes pretty well, too. Maybe I'll do a proper review when I finish.

It's always so much more interesting to read about other people's train wreck families then living with one's own, isn't it?

Random quote of the day:

"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."

—Arnold Bennett


And here are some random dashes for buymeaclue:

I swear—really!—I am not trying—as of yet—to be—much—of a smartass—well, any more than usual.

Comments

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Try again. I am an em-dash freak. :-p

[(Anonymous)]

lol

[pjthompson]

Not to mention, lol.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the purchase of a new writing implement!

[pjthompson]

Thank you, sir. I am excited by the mobility of the thing.

[handworn.livejournal.com]

Do you find your brain works differently when typing than when writing longhand?

[pjthompson]

Hmm, good question. Essentially, no. But with longhand there's a lag between idea and getting it on the page and sometimes that causes me to stop and think more. (Or maybe fret more.) Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes that's a bad thing.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Great quote, and I read it at just the right time for me, when I was trying to explain to someone how I can understand something and still not *feel* it and therefore not be moved by or affected one way or another because of it.

Creating experience of the soul is what I would like to do and what I look for in fiction.

[pjthompson]

Yes--too much either way can be a detriment, but I think fiction must be equally felt and thought.

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

True, one doesn't want all feeling and no thought, or at least I don't. :P