Comments on: The Hours http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/reviews/movie-reviews/the-hours The surface and beneath the surface Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Dana Scragg Frank http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/reviews/movie-reviews/the-hours/comment-page-1#comment-13 Dana Scragg Frank Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:43:18 +0000 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/?p=61#comment-13 <p> Well, I've heard somewhere that studies show that children learn better while standing up. At Texas Monthly there is a stand-up desk where one can work, editing, proofreading, discussing edits. I always loved that desk, very old-fashioned, wood, like my desk here, not at all built for even the notion of a computer. I lay my keyboard inside the drawer of my desk at home to get the most ergonomic positioning. I would love a stand-up desk at home, though, so that when I got up to walk around the leaving wouldn't be such a departure. It would almost be like the writing could be part of the rhythm of the day, and I could cruise by the desk, write until I had no more for the moment, and then wander off to stroke the horses or hang the laundry. </p> Well, I’ve heard somewhere that studies show that children learn better while standing up. At Texas Monthly there is a stand-up desk where one can work, editing, proofreading, discussing edits. I always loved that desk, very old-fashioned, wood, like my desk here, not at all built for even the notion of a computer. I lay my keyboard inside the drawer of my desk at home to get the most ergonomic positioning. I would love a stand-up desk at home, though, so that when I got up to walk around the leaving wouldn’t be such a departure. It would almost be like the writing could be part of the rhythm of the day, and I could cruise by the desk, write until I had no more for the moment, and then wander off to stroke the horses or hang the laundry.

]]> By: Dana Scragg Frank http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/reviews/movie-reviews/the-hours/comment-page-1#comment-12 Dana Scragg Frank Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:48:53 +0000 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/?p=61#comment-12 <p> I loved this movie, and I think I need to see it again. I loved all the acting and was particularly interested in Nicole Kidman's take on Virginia Woolf, how she worked, where she sat, how she struggled with the story. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing it right, this writing thing, and I wonder if my habits and moodiness and indecision are, what, normal. For a writer. Kidman helped me see that, yes, that's what it is all about. Just let go, don't be self-conscious. Just write. </p> <p> Thanks for the lovely, intelligent entry, M. </p> <p class="reply"> If I remember correctly, VW actually wrote her novels standing up. I can't find the reference, but it must be somewhere on my shelf of books devoted to the Bloomsbury crowd. -- mss </p> I loved this movie, and I think I need to see it again. I loved all the acting and was particularly interested in Nicole Kidman’s take on Virginia Woolf, how she worked, where she sat, how she struggled with the story. Sometimes I wonder if I’m doing it right, this writing thing, and I wonder if my habits and moodiness and indecision are, what, normal. For a writer. Kidman helped me see that, yes, that’s what it is all about. Just let go, don’t be self-conscious. Just write.

Thanks for the lovely, intelligent entry, M.

If I remember correctly, VW actually wrote her novels standing up. I can’t find the reference, but it must be somewhere on my shelf of books devoted to the Bloomsbury crowd. — mss

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