I'm glad that I've been on so many message boards and typed out so many little stores in the past decade, because if it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be as good with descriptive writing as I am now. I used to have a reputation in 7th and 8th grade as a very descriptive open response writer...even when I was trying not to use many words but still trying to make a good grade, I still got this particular reaction from people with that talent I wielded. I have to thank typo correction and word web(it's like a little dictionary I can access at any time if I don't know a word).
Still, when I think of how writers and journalists used to work with type writers and paper, it makes me cringe a little. If it wasn't for being able to fix little things on screen without taking my eraser to it for 10-15 seconds, I wouldn't type as much as this.
It feels like learning to write on paper would improve your writing skills more than typing. I say that because writing requires knowing what you are going to put into one sentence and not being able to add extra words or remove words without starting over. It is something like walking on a tight rope...one wrong move and it's back to the beginning, or death.
It also makes think back to a study in a documentary on multi-tasking. Even though these people were constantly doing several things at once with their ipods, laptops, cell phones, email, gadgets and other junk, they were pretty lousy at it. Typing feels somewhat similar to multi-tasking because it offers you so many ways to go back and correct yourself, whereas you only have two ways to fix a problem on paper...erase a line or chunk out of it or throw it out(unless it is a small typo).
What do you guys think? Do you feel writing on paper is better for us? Or is typing a privilege?
Still, when I think of how writers and journalists used to work with type writers and paper, it makes me cringe a little. If it wasn't for being able to fix little things on screen without taking my eraser to it for 10-15 seconds, I wouldn't type as much as this.
It feels like learning to write on paper would improve your writing skills more than typing. I say that because writing requires knowing what you are going to put into one sentence and not being able to add extra words or remove words without starting over. It is something like walking on a tight rope...one wrong move and it's back to the beginning, or death.
It also makes think back to a study in a documentary on multi-tasking. Even though these people were constantly doing several things at once with their ipods, laptops, cell phones, email, gadgets and other junk, they were pretty lousy at it. Typing feels somewhat similar to multi-tasking because it offers you so many ways to go back and correct yourself, whereas you only have two ways to fix a problem on paper...erase a line or chunk out of it or throw it out(unless it is a small typo).
What do you guys think? Do you feel writing on paper is better for us? Or is typing a privilege?
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