Back on line – bought myself another computer, in fact. So I now have two… never want to be without a second again; it was awful. Ok, so I am addicted.
And to think when I started writing seriously, I used a manual typewriter and an eraser. That’s right. An eraser. They used to sell special typewriter erasers.
(There you are, now you know – I am so ancient, they didn’t even have correction fluid back when I was young…)
I am now so broke, that I think I can lose weight. No money for food, you see. So If you see a new svelte me, blame my addiction to computers.
Seriously, I think having a computer and all those wonderful opportunities to revise, revise, revise, without retyping the whole thing, has made me (and probably everyone else too) a better writer. I would never want to go back to the good old days if I had to surrender my laptop…
That is *fantastic*!!!!! And anyway, food is over-rated.
Yee haw! Go you! No more icky internet cafe!
I’m with you, Glenda. I couldn’t bear to write without a ‘puter these days. I actually know a few people who prefer to write by hand and then key the work in later, saying that their creativity is inhibited by a keyboard, but me, I wouldn’t have the patience!
I’ve been feeling computer-deprived since I’ve been travelling as sometimes several days at a time go by when I can’t get access to one. Terrible not to be able to check my e-mails and friends’ blogs! I’m not writing at all, except to blog, but I look on travel as being process, even if the product is not going to manifest until some unspecified future date.
But as for food being over-rated, Karen, I ain’t so sure. Given the choice of eating or writing, which would I choose? Hmmm…
If it came down to writing=starvation, or food? Hm. I’d probably end up eating the writing…