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Publishing a digital notebook for writers. Open Loop Press Editor Carlin M. Wragg shares intriguing tidbits about art and design, literature and technology.

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Tagged writing:

John Barth (via theparisreview)
Mar 10
“One must understand that the house of fiction has many windows.”
Unattributed - from The Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature, ed. Philip Martin (via literary-labyrinth)
Feb 16
“Pure love of an author for his or her own characters is impossible to ignore. Successful writers enjoy spending time with their creations.”
Ernest Hemingway (via libraryland)
Feb 14
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
John Steinbeck (via awritersruminations)

(Source: theparisreview.org)
Feb 08
“It has been a good day of work with no harm in it. I have sat long over the desk and the pencil has felt good in my hand. Outside the sun is very bright and warm and the buds are swelling to a popping size. I guess it is a good thing I became a writer. Perhaps I am too lazy for anything else.”

This week’s new must-have writing tool: The Inkless Metal Pen. ~CMW
Sep 19

Writing innovations ~ The Continuous Pencil via Yanko Design.
Sep 16
Writing innovations ~ The Continuous Pencil via Yanko Design.

How much do a writer’s tools guide the writing process? Is storytelling different with pen on paper, fingers on typewriter keys, a notebook keyboard? ~CMW

libraryland:

awritersruminations:

girlperson:

Anne Sexton’s typewriter at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Of those authors who did embrace the typewriter, few asked more of the machine than poet Anne Sexton, who milked her Royal Quiet De Luxe for all it was worth, employing it as both a tool and subject. In an essay about her time as a writer-in-residence in Boston, she quotes her youngest daughter as saying, “A mother is someone who types all day” and then Sexton later complains of “fingers sore from constant typing.” Her typewriter appears frequently in her poems: sometimes watchful (“the forty-eight keys of the typewriter/each an eyeball that is never shut”); sometimes as a poor substitute (“and this is the typewriter that sits before me/where yesterday only your body sat before me”); sometimes as the poet itself (“I am, each day,/typing out the God my typewriter believes in”); and sometimes as victim (“For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.”).

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 I have one that looks just like this.
Sep 15
How much do a writer’s tools guide the writing process? Is storytelling different with pen on paper, fingers on typewriter keys, a notebook keyboard? ~CMW libraryland: awritersruminations: girlperson: Anne Sexton’s typewriter at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin Of those authors who did embrace the typewriter, few asked more of the machine than poet Anne Sexton, who milked her Royal Quiet De Luxe for all it was worth, employing it as both a tool and subject. In an essay about her time as a writer-in-residence in Boston, she quotes her youngest daughter as saying, “A mother is someone who types all day” and then Sexton later complains of “fingers sore from constant typing.” Her typewriter appears frequently in her poems: sometimes watchful (“the forty-eight keys of the typewriter/each an eyeball that is never shut”); sometimes as a poor substitute (“and this is the typewriter that sits before me/where yesterday only your body sat before me”); sometimes as the poet itself (“I am, each day,/typing out the God my typewriter believes in”); and sometimes as victim (“For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.”). via  I have one that looks just like this.

11/20/2009

“Friday morning A train, 9:37am, a woman wearing a red-and-black banded turtleneck sweater with a Caribbean accent and one lazy eye paces the space between shoulders and backpacks saying “Jesus—Do you have Jesus in your life?” Later on the Hudson orange leaves blow through the glass double-doors. In SoHo a man in a newsboy cap and khaki jacket raises his arm to hail a taxi outside the Apple store to take him and his new iMac 24” display home.  The straight white teeth in the smile of the hostess at Mercer Kitchen greeting guests. The blue eyes of the model on the corner of Broadway and Prince. The waving, half-wet blond curls reversed in the salon mirror. Are her pursed lips often pursed, or are they only when she is in reflection?” ~Carlin M. Wragg
Nov 20
Nov 20

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Posted on Thursday March 10th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

“One must understand that the house of fiction has many windows.”
John Barth (via theparisreview)

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Posted on Wednesday February 16th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

“Pure love of an author for his or her own characters is impossible to ignore. Successful writers enjoy spending time with their creations.”
Unattributed - from The Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature, ed. Philip Martin (via literary-labyrinth)

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Posted on Monday February 14th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
Ernest Hemingway (via libraryland)

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Posted on Tuesday February 8th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

“It has been a good day of work with no harm in it. I have sat long over the desk and the pencil has felt good in my hand. Outside the sun is very bright and warm and the buds are swelling to a popping size. I guess it is a good thing I became a writer. Perhaps I am too lazy for anything else.”
John Steinbeck (via awritersruminations)

(Source: theparisreview.org)

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Posted on Sunday September 19th 2010 at 12:47pm. Its tags are listed below.

This week’s new must-have writing tool: The Inkless Metal Pen. ~CMW

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Posted on Thursday September 16th 2010 at 06:43am. Its tags are listed below.

Writing innovations ~ The Continuous Pencil via Yanko Design.
Writing innovations ~ The Continuous Pencil via Yanko Design.

Writing innovations ~ The Continuous Pencil via Yanko Design.

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Posted on Wednesday September 15th 2010 at 11:40am. Its tags are listed below.

How much do a writer’s tools guide the writing process? Is storytelling different with pen on paper, fingers on typewriter keys, a notebook keyboard? ~CMW libraryland: awritersruminations: girlperson: Anne Sexton’s typewriter at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin Of those authors who did embrace the typewriter, few asked more of the machine than poet Anne Sexton, who milked her Royal Quiet De Luxe for all it was worth, employing it as both a tool and subject. In an essay about her time as a writer-in-residence in Boston, she quotes her youngest daughter as saying, “A mother is someone who types all day” and then Sexton later complains of “fingers sore from constant typing.” Her typewriter appears frequently in her poems: sometimes watchful (“the forty-eight keys of the typewriter/each an eyeball that is never shut”); sometimes as a poor substitute (“and this is the typewriter that sits before me/where yesterday only your body sat before me”); sometimes as the poet itself (“I am, each day,/typing out the God my typewriter believes in”); and sometimes as victim (“For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.”). via  I have one that looks just like this.
How much do a writer’s tools guide the writing process? Is storytelling different with pen on paper, fingers on typewriter keys, a notebook keyboard? ~CMW libraryland: awritersruminations: girlperson: Anne Sexton’s typewriter at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin Of those authors who did embrace the typewriter, few asked more of the machine than poet Anne Sexton, who milked her Royal Quiet De Luxe for all it was worth, employing it as both a tool and subject. In an essay about her time as a writer-in-residence in Boston, she quotes her youngest daughter as saying, “A mother is someone who types all day” and then Sexton later complains of “fingers sore from constant typing.” Her typewriter appears frequently in her poems: sometimes watchful (“the forty-eight keys of the typewriter/each an eyeball that is never shut”); sometimes as a poor substitute (“and this is the typewriter that sits before me/where yesterday only your body sat before me”); sometimes as the poet itself (“I am, each day,/typing out the God my typewriter believes in”); and sometimes as victim (“For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.”). via  I have one that looks just like this.

How much do a writer’s tools guide the writing process? Is storytelling different with pen on paper, fingers on typewriter keys, a notebook keyboard? ~CMW

libraryland:

awritersruminations:

girlperson:

Anne Sexton’s typewriter at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin

Of those authors who did embrace the typewriter, few asked more of the machine than poet Anne Sexton, who milked her Royal Quiet De Luxe for all it was worth, employing it as both a tool and subject. In an essay about her time as a writer-in-residence in Boston, she quotes her youngest daughter as saying, “A mother is someone who types all day” and then Sexton later complains of “fingers sore from constant typing.” Her typewriter appears frequently in her poems: sometimes watchful (“the forty-eight keys of the typewriter/each an eyeball that is never shut”); sometimes as a poor substitute (“and this is the typewriter that sits before me/where yesterday only your body sat before me”); sometimes as the poet itself (“I am, each day,/typing out the God my typewriter believes in”); and sometimes as victim (“For I pray that my typewriter, ever faithful, will not break even though I threw it across the hospital room six years ago.”).

via

 I have one that looks just like this.

Posted on Friday November 20th 2009 at 11:13pm. Its tags are listed below.

11/20/2009

“Friday morning A train, 9:37am, a woman wearing a red-and-black banded turtleneck sweater with a Caribbean accent and one lazy eye paces the space between shoulders and backpacks saying “Jesus—Do you have Jesus in your life?” Later on the Hudson orange leaves blow through the glass double-doors. In SoHo a man in a newsboy cap and khaki jacket raises his arm to hail a taxi outside the Apple store to take him and his new iMac 24” display home.  The straight white teeth in the smile of the hostess at Mercer Kitchen greeting guests. The blue eyes of the model on the corner of Broadway and Prince. The waving, half-wet blond curls reversed in the salon mirror. Are her pursed lips often pursed, or are they only when she is in reflection?” ~Carlin M. Wragg

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