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  1. Jul 2025
    1. Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it. . . . You get one paragraph partly right, and then you’ll go back and work on the other part. It’s a different thing.

      https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/writerly-life-joan-didion

      apparently quoted from Joan Didion: The Last Interview