'The Echo Maker' dictated

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Powers always tries fancy writing ways. Apparantly the previous book was
written on bed with the writing projected on a huge screen

On 11/17/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> You wrote most of The Echo Maker on a tablet PC running voice recognition
> software. How did you arrive at that method of composition?
>
> I've always wanted the freedom to be completely disembodied when I'm
> writing, to feel as if I'm in a pure compositional state. Typing is a
> highly
> unnatural activity, and your writing style ends up reflecting the
> cognitive
> shackles. When I started to use the tablet, things that are extremely
> difficult to do on a word processor opened up to me. I could also make
> drawings to see what a character looked like, and these sketches would be
> integrated into my research. Part of the mystery of The Echo Maker hinges
> upon what happened on a certain stretch of road on the night of the
> accident. I figured that out visually by drawing the scene over and over
> and
> seeing how all the elements moved in relationship to one another.
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/play.html?pg=6
>
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