Sympathies on the computer. My laptop is acting flaky, and I can't do some stuff because I don't want to risk needing to restart it and having the possibility that it won't restart.
In my experience, writers tend to have the biggest problem writing what is difficult for them IRL. And a lot of us tend to live inside our heads, so that our bodies end up being baggage that we have to lug through life. So it's not easy to write scenes showing things through actions and body language.
Yet conversely, when I've set down to write transhumanist stories like the Chaffee Artilect sequence, I've found that it's very difficult to write from the POV of someone who doesn't have a body, or whose physical form is something radically different from a regular biological human body. It's much easier to write from the POV of one of Roger's consciousness strands that's either running a biological avatar or a digital avatar in a storyscape, than when his consciousness is pure spacecraft.
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And so sorry about the computer woes! :(
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In my experience, writers tend to have the biggest problem writing what is difficult for them IRL. And a lot of us tend to live inside our heads, so that our bodies end up being baggage that we have to lug through life. So it's not easy to write scenes showing things through actions and body language.
Yet conversely, when I've set down to write transhumanist stories like the Chaffee Artilect sequence, I've found that it's very difficult to write from the POV of someone who doesn't have a body, or whose physical form is something radically different from a regular biological human body. It's much easier to write from the POV of one of Roger's consciousness strands that's either running a biological avatar or a digital avatar in a storyscape, than when his consciousness is pure spacecraft.
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