Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:16:47 -0500
From: <lees103 at verizon.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fred Pohl blogs !
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

    When several WSFAns treated Harry Turtledove after his relatively recent
visit to the National Press Club, he said that he writes his first drafts
longhand.  He was asked how he keeps his hands from suffering terminal
writer's cramp and replied that he takes his hands off each night and soaks
them in linament until morning when he reattaches them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:19 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fred Pohl blogs !

> The fascinating thing about Pohl is that he - until recently - wrote =
> *every*    day.  Usually longhand on yellow legal pad.  For, well, longer
> =
> than WSFA has been around.
>
> mjw
>
>>>> <lees103 at verizon.net> 1/21/2009 3:15 PM >>>
> I particularly liked Pohl's comment in "The Way The Future Was" about
> "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the =
> seat
> of the chair."  -- Lee
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
> To: <wsfalist at KeithLynch.net>; <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:26 AM
> Subject: [WSFA] Fred Pohl blogs !
>
>> http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/
>>
>> His first post - about collaborating with Sir Arthur C. Clarke - is a =
> =
>> combination of delight & bittersweet:
>> http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2009/01/sir-arthur-and-i/
>>
>> Lastly, his memoir, The Way The Future Was, is a treasure.  Though long =
> OP
>> =
>> (published 1978), used copies are easy to get, both pb
>> (http://www.amazon.com/Way-Future-Was-Frederik-Pohl/dp/0345260597)
>> & hardcover
>> (http://www.amazon.com/Way-Future-Was-Memoir/dp/0345277147/ ).  Many for
>> =
> a
>> =
>> paltry penny, plus $3.99 shipping.  You can't go wrong.
>>
>> mjw
>>
>