Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Jul 09 2009
Paper, paper everywhere and not a sheet left blank
My browser crashed today, so it was time to back things up and restart my computer. In the meantime, I got to work on some decluttering of the office area. I have a long way to go, but there are less sliding stacks of printouts on the table behind me. I filed some papers, which is a loathsome job to me. I gathered other printouts that need to be snail-mailed to a fellow writer and I corraled some address and phone number changes that were on small pieces of paper so that I can enter those into the computer. Now things are up and running again with the computer, so it's time to get those numbers entered and get back to research and writing. One nice thing about computer applications crashing is that it gives us time to regress to the days of yesteryear, when paper was king and writers looked a lot more stereotypical in their offices, with books and typing paper and stacks of 3x5s all over the room, gathering thick dust faster than you can change a typewriter ribbon. With that in mind, let me say that nostalgia is a fleeting pleasure best left to odd moments between healthy doses of the present.
posted at: 13:51 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
My browser crashed today, so it was time to back things up and restart my computer. In the meantime, I got to work on some decluttering of the office area. I have a long way to go, but there are less sliding stacks of printouts on the table behind me. I filed some papers, which is a loathsome job to me. I gathered other printouts that need to be snail-mailed to a fellow writer and I corraled some address and phone number changes that were on small pieces of paper so that I can enter those into the computer. Now things are up and running again with the computer, so it's time to get those numbers entered and get back to research and writing. One nice thing about computer applications crashing is that it gives us time to regress to the days of yesteryear, when paper was king and writers looked a lot more stereotypical in their offices, with books and typing paper and stacks of 3x5s all over the room, gathering thick dust faster than you can change a typewriter ribbon. With that in mind, let me say that nostalgia is a fleeting pleasure best left to odd moments between healthy doses of the present.
posted at: 13:51 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
