THROWBACK THURSDAY (Facebook, Aug. 1, 2024
THROWBACK THURSDAY: …all the way back to the late ’80s and early 90s and my first computer, an all-in-one fossil of a machine that had no internet, of course, no email, nothing except the ability it gave me to write books without pen and paper. It had so little memory that sometimes a program ran out of space even before I had finished a chapter. Each chapter had to be saved separately.
BUT–I could make corrections, erase and add stuff at will without constant recourse to crossed-out, scribbled in lines and whiteout. Best of all, when I was finished, I could print out the book by pressing a button and sitting back and twiddling my thumbs. Well, sort of. The printer used reams of paper and often went off center so I had to stop it and realign the sheets. Then each page had to be separated from the others and the perforated strip down each side of every page had to be torn off. I had to make sure the page numbers were worked out at the end of each chapter.
Eventually the whole manuscript was packed up and sent off to New York via snail mail. AND–I thought I was in heaven!! Maybe think of these things if and when you read some of my earlier books. And boy, did I ever look young once upon a time!
I remember those days well. I was a Secretary and if I remember correctly, my machine was called a word processer. When I was told I could edit and make corrections without re-typing everything, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Thanks for the memory.
Just wondering if there will be anymore books in the Westcott series. I just finished Someone Perfect.
I love how this family turns up all the time.
Have a wonderful day!
I hope to write Bertrand Lamarr’s story as part of the Ravenswood series, Debbie.
I am rereading the Westcott series for the third time. I always have a hard time deciding which series is my favorite, but this is certainly in the running for that title. However, I wondered again what happened to Viscount Watley? Have I somehow missed the book that includes his story?
Bertrand does have his story, Glenda, but it has not been published yet. It is told in A WALTZ TO REMEMBER, Book 6 of the Ravenswood series.