My spare computers, all small and very powerful beyond any understanding I ever hope to acquire of hard drives, bytes, megabytes of memory, or 486 chips, had been delivered earlier, along with a ludicrous supply of diskettes on which to “back up” or copy my work. Truth is, I worked mostly by hand, on yellow legal pads…
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Author brags about her wealthy writer character’s amazing technology, in 1996. I won’t name the book because you’ll judge me for reading it. (via forcessweetheart)
Vonnegut said, “I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
I’m of the opinion that technology is clothing and can be safely included (and forgiven for anachronisms) so long as the body beneath is compelling.
Dear writers, do you include technology in your stories? Do you intentionally avoid such details?
(Source: elkdogmen)
