Fieldnotes
Does a computer give your drafts "too smooth a gloss"?
In November, following the publication of his presidential memoir, it emerged that Barack Obama wrote the entire 760-page tome by hand, on yellow legal notepaper with a pen. A pen!?
"I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth
The Most Glorious Pasteboard
From a review of one of Paul Monette's novels:
Every act, every event is cut and re-cut by the author's sparkling prose and bizarre imagination to give us new facets, new depths and new insights. The characters aren't quite real and--this is the author&
Satisfaction
Today I gave a talk at a career panel for people interested in LGBTQ advocacy. Afterward a young trans person came up to me and wanted to talk about what to do when you were the first trans person, how do you balance taking care of yourself and trying to