Song: Love Is A Long Road Artist: Tom Petty Written by Thomas Earl Petty and Michael W. Campbell Published by Universal Music Works on behalf of Wild Gator Music (GMR) and Wixen Music Publishing, Inc. as agent for Gone Gator Music (ASCAP) and NotoriousJBPSongs (ASCAP) Courtesy of Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Really struck by what @neilhimself says in this interview about writing with fountain pens: "...the process of writing is always a process of trying to trick my brain into thinking that what I'm doing is not important. And I remember the joy of moving from the typewriter to the computer (which shows how old I am) and the great thing was I wasn't making paper dirty. And suddenly writing became easier. And then, I remember the point where I went 'You know, I think it's time to try writing on paper again because that feels less important.'
"But also I was getting fascinated by the way that medium creates sentences. I noticed that when I write on a computer I don't necessarily know where I'm going. I can make false starts and change things. If I'm writing in fountain pen I don't want to see lots of crossings out so I may actually think my way through to the end of the sentence without sort of approximat(ing). I'll get a little bit more precise."
I've had similar feelings. In the typewriter days I used to draft by hand in a throwaway spiral notebook, make notes in the margins, then do my final draft with the machine. First, word processing freed me, but for a long time it's been a trap of always being able to go back and revise. There's never a final draft. I almost embraced my fountain pen a couple years ago. Maybe I'll give it another shot. https://www.ruv.is/sjonvarp/spila/kiljan/32201/a005i3
(quote starts at 26:24, full interview at 19:05)
It is a bit sad (or funny) to see that those interesting discussions often mention Bluesky and rarely Mastodon (despite the fact that the later as 10 times more users and is connected to an even bigger network: the Fediverse).
As I said previously: we should stop trying to make social networks succeed: