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Clive55
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 1336
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: Writers Original Manuscript- A thing of the past? |
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I was reading about a famous authors original, rough version of what was to be a famous novel, being sold for a good sum of cash.
Now, I forget the particulars, but the story is familiar.
The authors original manuscript, full of crossing outs & corrections, turns up & is sold to same academic, library or indevidual.
I was just wondering how this will change, now we are in the era of the computer. The author does not leave behind a bundle of pages, full of crossing outs & scribbled corrections, but they can simply correct or change the mauscript on the computer, & email off the finished product to the publisher.
The creative process goes on, but there will, I suggest, be less clues to the process to go under the hammer for future generations |
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Briant
Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 964 Location: Liverpool England UK
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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: The Written Word..... |
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Brian Jacques is one author I know who writes his 'Redwall' stories out in longhand and then transfers then onto the page on an old typewriter! Perhaps some of his originals will survive. |
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