I was just thinking I need to unplug more, but I seem to have a strong resistance to it -- even at the old age of 62. 🤣 Of course, we know the digital stuff is addictive, but knowing it isn’t the same as doing something about it. I love writing on the computer, which makes it so easy to cut things, add things, move things around. I’m lucky to live in a place with great hiking but can’t do that every day. I guess my compromise is taking the laptop into the backyard and working there ... also, I was just thinking I need to see the Barbie movie! But given the pandemic, I’ll go for an uncrowded matinee.
Yeah I get that about the uncrowded matinee. I like a movie complex on the edge of town that has very light crowds, especially in the afternoons.
I like the computer editing too. But I'm starting to want to write more with a pen. I've also read a lot of people teaching copywriting promoting "copy work," where you take famous copy and write it out longhand, to learn it in a different way.
I wish I had cool handwriting like my father, who was an architect, did.
Interesting! My father was also an architect and had cool handwriting. (He's still around, but his handwriting has gotten shaky.) I can barely read my own writing, plus I find that it cramps my wrist. I write postcards to voters and can only manage 8 at a time before my hand starts hurting. But it does seem to get your brain working in a different way. Virginia Woolf noted that her writing felt different when she wrote with a pen than with a typewriter — imagine if she'd had a computer!
I'm thinking about tutoring a couple of underclassmen (8-9 grade) once a week and the planner looks like it'd be useful. I always thought that before you do something digital, you should have at least mastered it with pen/pencil/paper first.
I was just thinking I need to unplug more, but I seem to have a strong resistance to it -- even at the old age of 62. 🤣 Of course, we know the digital stuff is addictive, but knowing it isn’t the same as doing something about it. I love writing on the computer, which makes it so easy to cut things, add things, move things around. I’m lucky to live in a place with great hiking but can’t do that every day. I guess my compromise is taking the laptop into the backyard and working there ... also, I was just thinking I need to see the Barbie movie! But given the pandemic, I’ll go for an uncrowded matinee.
Yeah I get that about the uncrowded matinee. I like a movie complex on the edge of town that has very light crowds, especially in the afternoons.
I like the computer editing too. But I'm starting to want to write more with a pen. I've also read a lot of people teaching copywriting promoting "copy work," where you take famous copy and write it out longhand, to learn it in a different way.
I wish I had cool handwriting like my father, who was an architect, did.
Interesting! My father was also an architect and had cool handwriting. (He's still around, but his handwriting has gotten shaky.) I can barely read my own writing, plus I find that it cramps my wrist. I write postcards to voters and can only manage 8 at a time before my hand starts hurting. But it does seem to get your brain working in a different way. Virginia Woolf noted that her writing felt different when she wrote with a pen than with a typewriter — imagine if she'd had a computer!
I'm thinking about tutoring a couple of underclassmen (8-9 grade) once a week and the planner looks like it'd be useful. I always thought that before you do something digital, you should have at least mastered it with pen/pencil/paper first.
That's a great point. Thanks, Ara. I had really forgotten how much I enjoyed pen and paper.