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You know and it's like yes there's some bad people that asked me last night he says Don't you ever write about positive characters and so I think all my characters are positive. You know they just a little flawed just saw you know. I'll do one more question if there is what we're question yes. Well you know I was a computer programmer before I was a writer. I didn't write before I was 34 and I just I really started late you know. I write by hand a lot. You know I mean certainly when you do rewriting when you're changing things sometimes you know you know and you know and I'm making notes and stuff like that but you know it you know the truth is if you went to a publisher with a handwritten novel they'd give it back to you. You know. Maybe if you were Tom Clancy they take it you know. Well I know but you know when you have a right and you have to type it into the computer that's like that's like double work to me. And you know typewriting is even worse because you make one mistake you've got to retype the whole page it's really it's like you know the handwriting is better than type writing.

But you know typing on the computer some I do you know I do a lot of stuff that I do a lot of writing my hand you know I may write out a paragraph or a thought or notion or idea make lists of things outlined things. Also always when I'm when I'm writing somewhere by the eighth or ninth draft of the novel I read it out loud into a tape recorder and I listen to it because very often you know you you've gone over the novel so many times that you think you know what you're reading but you're not it's what you're reading is not really there. So you know yes so you know you know a lot of noise but why do you ask him what's important to you about that. Yeah. I. But no it doesn't you know you know all the old guys like Victor Hugo and like these people they were like 80 novels a solo wrote a hundred eighteen novels Balzac wrote one hundred eighty three novels. You know I mean by hand

dipping ink you know they did with a hand ball pens you know like they were dipping in and then Christa most.