Just catching up on some emails I've been too scatty to reply to - life is
interesting at the moment, meaning all over the place - thanks so much for
your comments on Masthead, Rupert, they're very much appreciated.
I think the business of communicating via email is a qualitative change and
has all sorts of interesting ramifications. I also know that working with
computers has changed the way I work, and also what I write; my process is
very bound up with the business of obsessively scrolling through, again and
again, until I get something right. It struck me when I wrote Navigatio, my
first long piece of prose (well, 100 pages) which was written just after the
birth of a baby. If I had had to type it out in hard copy, it quite simply
would have never been written under those circumstances, in between feeds,
changes and all those other tasks. I suspect that if it were not for
computers, I would not write novels at all, I just couldn't get my head
around the length. Which may partly answer someone's question about length,
although my poems have never been long, and show signs recently of becoming
shorter and shorter. Which may unanswer it.
All the best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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