SA: This is kind of a clichΓ© fan-boy question about writing longhand or writing straight into the keypad, but I am genuinely intrigued when I talk to other writers about the process of making words. Do you still write things out into books?
>JK: No, but I do still love writing longhand into books. So I have tons of notebooks and I write a lot of dialogue down, physically, I hand write a lot of dialogue, I write ideas down, I work out bits of plans by hand. Itβs such a prosaic reason for writing longhand, but to me itβs important. You get to keep everything. With a computer, when itβs deleted, you canβt go back. You think, oh damn it, I know I planned a chapter there and I think that would have worked better, but itβs gone, itβs gone itβs gone. But Iβve learned to keep saving so Iβve got, you know, 52 versions of a plan. Just make sure you save and go again. But I love looking over my old notebooks. Itβs a true record of where everything came from.
SA: I always say to my students that itβs good to build a sort of archaeology of your work that you can look back on, even if itβs just about seeing your mistakesβ¦
>JK: β¦exactlyβ¦
SA: β¦where it went wrong because youβre right, deleting everything leads to this idea that something was perfectedβ¦
>JK: β¦exactlyβ¦
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Picked up another pen and donβt need this one so up on the chopping block it goes.
Iβve had this out to write a few words and thatβs about all the action itβs seen. Will come in the box.
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Hey, so I've done some googling, but would also love any advice.
I finished a draft of a novel in August that I'd been working on for the previous 12 months, and I wrote it longhand. I've had a friend transcribing notebooks for me, but that's huge job and they've been moving fairly slowly.
I was wondering if any of y'all have had experience turning a long hand manuscript into a typed document. Did you pay for a service, or was there a good way to just sit down and tough out typing it all up? If paid services, which ones were good/affordable?
Thanks!
My latest discovery in the search for the oldest alphabetical shorthand system! Published in 1857 by A. J. Graham, the author of Modern Graham Shorthand.
The idea of applying some of shorthand principles to everyday writing already existed in the 19th century, but in order to find books on it you need to search using the keyword "longhand". Not all of them have been digitalized, of course, so I'm just browsing through what is accessible.
The manual is structured around three styles of "brief longhand", and the whole system could be summarized with several pages.
The first style consists of about 60 common wordsigns. Example:
| it | i |
|---|---|
| not | n |
| our | -r |
| several | sev |
Note the dash in "our" - we will see this principle later.
The second style adds about 150 wordsigns to the list, plus introduces a system of affixes.
Many of the new wordsigns and almost all the affixes share one key characteristic - the use of ^(superscript).
| himself | h^(s) |
|---|---|
| understand | ^(u)st |
| duty | duΒ΄ |
| motion | mo` |
| acting | actΛ |
As you can see, the superscript letters are much easier to differentiate than superscript special signs like Β΄ ` Λ and Λ (-ty, -tion, -ing and -ings). Also at this level several blends are introduced for handwriting,
The third style utilizes all the wordsigns and affixes introduced before, plus recommends dropping all vowels and silent letters. This is where elision (marked with a dash) comes into play.
The vowels dropped at the end of the word are to be replaced by the sign of elision. The vowels at the beginning of the word can be dropped, but it is suggested to keep the accented initial vowels and use the elision for initial "double vowels". Quite sensibly, "an unaccented initial vowel needs to be written or indicated by a mark of elision whenever it serves to distinguish one word from another".
| free | fr- |
|---|---|
| invention | nvn` |
| obvious | obvs |
| east | -st |
| along | -lng |
The idea of skipping vowels but marking their location is very practical, and I think it has been discussed here before! The only thing is that, of course, a dash saves time when writing with a pen, but in case of typing it's irrelevant whether you type "so" or "s-".
Interesting point - while Graham was a huge proponent of phonetic wr
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This is the first in what will become a series of write-ups about my journey playing through Lego Star Wars TCS, this may be long so a TL, DR is available at the end :)
p.s. im not entirely sure on the flair for this one so if mods want it changing let me know :)
Background context
Edit title spelling error oops
I played through this game when I was much younger, having been gifted it for Christmas on the Wii, I canβt remember exactly which year, but I must have been about 9 or 10 so around a decade ago. I do remember completing the game in story mode, but not much of the gameplay or doing any of the bounty stuff beyond the story, so when I came across it on a steam sale for a couple pounds it was a must buy for me. I had done a few levels on a previous save before this in co-op but thought it would be cool to document my entire playthrough in text format from the start.
Episode 1 Chapter 1: Negotiations
Much like its film counterpart, the negotiations were short, in fact they appeared to be none-existent as my ship was instantly shot, nonetheless, spawning in in the classic negotiation room was a good nostalgia trip. Obviously, I had to do most of this level as qui gon, there is really no other option here, as much as I like Kenobi, you cannot beat qui gonβs Lego man-bun. Enough fodder, on with the episodeβ¦.
From spawn there was a lot of breaking and stud collecting, presumably to ease players into the game, so as I progressed through the corridors, I was soon able to reach true jedi (something I cannot remember being very good at from my childhood). Picking up TC-14 along the way to help with opening doors (and walking mind-numbingly slowly) I was able to quicky reach the final area of the level, before coming face-to-face with 2 Droidekaβs! Using my memory, I quickly employed the double jump to smash-into-ground technique learnt through much spamming in arcade against my sister as a child I was able to vanquish these with only a death... or two. This brought me to the end of the first chapter after a quick jump over a fence!
Episode 1 Chapter 2: Invasion of Naboo
Spawning in this time on the surface of Naboo, it was obvious which direction I had to go, but the distraction of easy studs from force-ing plants was too great and I made slow progress along the early part of the level. After blasting my way through some clanker scum [correct me if my slang is wrong it has been a while since Iβve seen clone wars] I was able to unloc
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I have been writing for some years now and I find it much fuller as an experience to write longhand (of course there are some disadvantages: my handwriting is chicken scratch, I end up with a bunch of full journals, and I need to type everything down)
But I find it much more gratifying and I somehow find it easier to start writing something in my journal or on a sheet of paper, rather than a computer screen.
Also, I am sure Neil Gaiman and a handful of others recommend it.
Yes, I know it may not be proper forkner. I'm still a beginner so let me catch up first! I am just practising the letters mainly at this point. Maybe learning the letters is optional though? The main thing is to learn the system and the letters are just an optimisation for speed.
Hello all! Iβm a little confused by something and I was hoping I could get some clarity from the group here.
Iβm brushing up on my combinatorics and I know that we can calculate distinct permutations by dividing by the number of duplicates with factorial. However, Iβm confused why I canβt get that answer to come out when I write in longhand.
Here is an example. How many distinct permutations are there if the word βteeβ?
I know this would be 3! Divided by 2!, which gives us an answer of 3 permutations. However, if Iβm writing this out longhand, Iβm getting stuck. In the case of βteaβ it would be...
3 possibilities for first slot multiplied by 2 possibilities for 2nd slot multiplied by 1 possibility remaining... so back to 3!.
Any help on why I canβt write the distinct version above longhand would be great so I can wrap my head around it. I want the equation of factorial divided by duplicate factorial to feel intuitive and natural rather than just following it to get an answer.
I know itβs not 2 x 1 x 1, etc because that doesnβt get us the correct answer we would get with a list or free.
Thanks!!
Is it different for different longhands? Is this an important consideration when choosing phonetic vs. orthographic, for example?
I can read Gregg kind of quickly, but nowhere near as quickly as I read latin text, obviously. I just wonder if getting there is even possible for an adult brain. Has any one of you achieved this?
I prefer writing longhand and I hate having to type it up. I have fics that have been finished for months and just need to be typed, that's how much I hate typing.
I bit the bullet and bought a tablet and stylus this weekend so I can write and let Google docs turn it into text. I've been using my Note 10 Plus, but the screen size is limiting. So far, it's reading my bad handwriting with very few mistakes and I've had to adjust my writing speed only a little bit. Even the guy at Best Buy was amazed at how well it works when I was trying it out before buying.
Just curious if I'm the only one who hates typing this much.
ETA: It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 and a Bamboo fine point stylus.
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This potion effect will allow you to build from further away.
If brewed with glowstone dust, will become level 2, but with the duration only of 1,5 minutes. If brewed with redstone dust, will lengthen the duration to 8 minutes. The default duration is 3 minutes.
At level 1 will allow the drinker to build with the reach of 7 blocks (the default is 4), and level 2 will give the reach of 10 blocks.
This potion is brewed with an arrow.
Been journaling in a Five Star notebook I bought at Wal-Mart. My journal is neater in shorthand than I've ever written in longhand.
What is your default form for writing out the first draft? For me personally I feel I'm at my most creative with just a pen and paper at hand.
