Posted by Eyes Only at zeb.zqwdrqsz.com on November 10, 2003 at 11:44:07:
In Reply to: does anyone know of a good writing program? posted by SanguiSuga on November 10, 2003 at 11:15:02:
: ...supposed to be able to help you develop plot and characters? This is all very well - but it does not encourage an intuitive leap or good old fashioned inspiration - which certainly comes to me from all sorts of interesting places (and people).
After Stephen King had that accident, he went back to writing the first draft using a Schaeffer and a legal pad (we don't get decent legal pads here - I always stock up when I visit the US...). My first novel was writtern in black ball point on UK civil service issue paper, all 134,000 words!
At the end of the day, it's your brain that does the writing - everything else is purely mechanical.