Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Jul 19 2016
Type, type, type, write, write, write
I've never found a really good scanning softeare that works well for recipes. The characters that don't get read properly can literally wreck a meal. As a result, I've been spending a lot of time typing recipes and saving them into digital files. I've been clipping or writing out recipes since I was a teen, keeping many of them in large 3-ring binders. Back then, paper was not produced to be acid-free, so many of the pages are getting brown and brittle and are slowly losing their integrity. Some pages are almost impossible to read because the paper quality has degraded so much over the years.
I have never counted them, but I'm sure the recipes number in the thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands. As you can imagine, this typing takes many hours, so I've been devoting part of most weekdays to typing. This takes away from story writing, so I keep a few other files close at hand for jotting story notes and ideas.
It's a matter of balance, something all writers have to practice in one way or another. The tough part is knowing how much time to devote to each of those tasks we balance in life. You've probably heard that we should never let the urgent crowd out the important. It's wonderful advice, but some days it taxes one's psyche to put it into practice.
posted at: 11:46 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I've never found a really good scanning softeare that works well for recipes. The characters that don't get read properly can literally wreck a meal. As a result, I've been spending a lot of time typing recipes and saving them into digital files. I've been clipping or writing out recipes since I was a teen, keeping many of them in large 3-ring binders. Back then, paper was not produced to be acid-free, so many of the pages are getting brown and brittle and are slowly losing their integrity. Some pages are almost impossible to read because the paper quality has degraded so much over the years.
I have never counted them, but I'm sure the recipes number in the thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands. As you can imagine, this typing takes many hours, so I've been devoting part of most weekdays to typing. This takes away from story writing, so I keep a few other files close at hand for jotting story notes and ideas.
It's a matter of balance, something all writers have to practice in one way or another. The tough part is knowing how much time to devote to each of those tasks we balance in life. You've probably heard that we should never let the urgent crowd out the important. It's wonderful advice, but some days it taxes one's psyche to put it into practice.
posted at: 11:46 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry