"LauraR;c-17335341" wrote:
"troshalom;d-969898" wrote:
Writers don't spend money on ink and paper everytime they create a book on a computer, so why do painters have to pay per icon to create digital icons!
This needs to be fixed.
As a writer I can absolutely confirm that yes, we actually do spend quite a lot on ink and paper, especially during edit phase. There's a certain kind of focus that only comes with the act of a physical pen on paper.
For some people, not all.
I'm wired differently than that, and a blank sheet (or used) of MS Word is so freeing. I can't imagine EDITING on PAPER since high school (only 'cause we were a bit broke for a computer at the start, and I hadn't practiced typing). A night mare. My paper writing is all cross-out lines and arrows, haha.
Also, I close up pens immediately before I put them down (they don't die often but we have TONS, we keep picking them up free here and there, hahaha :blush: ). I do enjoy having a lot of notebooks, but those are for NOTES, lists, drawings, etc. (so many lists and reminders). I used to have many messy notebooks of poetry, etc., and they weren't as organized or well-preserved as my computer files. (That last part's important for my own collection.)
(I'm not a fiction writer, btw, people always seem to assume writer = author, which I find weird as there are many kinds.)
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The other part was already responded to, but I'll add ... costs
are small; probably electricity and eventually wanting to upgrade to a bigger drive? Certainly not something noticeable per document or session.
