Then I type a third draft on yellow paper, a very special certain kind of yellow paper. No, I don't get out of bed to do this. I balance the machine on my knees. Sure, it works fine; I can manage a hundred words in a minute. Well, when the yellow draft is finished, I put the manuscript away for a while, a week, a month, sometimes longer. ... if all goes well, I type the final version on white paper and that's that.
Truman Capote used Blackwing 602 pencils.
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Capote kept notebooks with outlines for stories for sometime but found that this "somehow deadened the idea of [his] imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it - it will haunt you till it's written".
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
Photo Library of Congress
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