03/07/2014
2628 words today! Happy Friday!
Slow day at work, it let me finish much earlier than usual
as well as get over 2600 words done. I might end up writing some more later
today just because I have the extra time.
I wonder if I would have been able to write as prolifically
as I do without a computer. I love computers, for so many reasons, but one of
the biggest is word processing. I cannot imagine the necessity of writing
everything out onto paper. I have horrific penmanship, mostly because if I have
the option, I type. Every time. In college, I wrote in notebooks while I
ignored my professors' lectures, but even then I wished I had a laptop in those
days (My primary computer is always a desktop, for gaming, and it wasn't until
I was given a personal laptop at my job that I had a more portable option). I
told myself so many times that I would go back and type up those older stories,
but I never did. I never did it when I was in college, and I doubt I will now.
Even the typewriter annoys me--it's horrendous with
formatting, and mistakes were permanent unless you had one of those from the
80s and 90s that actually had white-out ink. I used one for about a week,
mainly for the curiosity of it, and quickly became annoyed at having to
interrupt my trains of thought to pull pages and put in new ones. I can only
imagine having these as my only options. I definitely would have a rough time
reaching the goal I work toward every day. So I suppose... thank the gods for
computers!
I clearly owe Bill Gates a beer.
Bishop
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