Well, technology can kill writing, anyway.
See, I had this wonderful post. I had carefully chosen every word and even managed to insert a bit of humor into it. It was beautiful! And then... Firefox froze.
Now, I hadn't finished the post yet, and so I just hit Ctrl-c. My shortcut to everything.
Except when I shut down Firefox, opened a new window, and went to paste my post back in... it wasn't there. It didn't copy. And you know what? I don't feel like replicating it. Technology has officially given me writer's block.
See, that never happens with good old-fashioned paper and pencil. The page won't freeze, you never have to refresh it or worry about slow loading times. You can't get a virus from a notebook (although you can certainly get a papercut), and your pencil will never write the letters slower than you input them.
I suppose the downside to the traditional writing materials is that you can't easily share it with others. Online, I can simply type in my post, hit Submit, and BAM! The whole world can see it in a few seconds. Not that I use that for my work - I'd rather not submit my work to hundreds of greedy eyes until it's almost perfect. I'm just that squeamish about criticism of my precious.
For now, I think the old way of writing is the right one for me. Although I suppose I'll have to get over that sooner or later - after all, I can't very well submit this post without overcoming that frustration.
Now, off to battle Windows-induced writer's block...
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