longhand genius

Computers kill written creativity. Writers know this innately though they rarely acknowledge it, as the flexibility offered by spell- and grammar-check combined with infinite revision power would seem to present a much bigger canvas. Final drafts are typed, creative work is scratched out in wrinkled paper and messy ink. I'm sure anyone reading this knows what I'm talking about, you've all written brilliant things that disappeared as soon as you opened Semagic. Laptops can help by offering a change of scenery, but there's still that damn keyboard, and every word you type looks just like everyone else's. You have to write in straight lines and carriage returns without margins or sketches. And somehow those white textboxes look infinitely more blank and imposing than 93in² of notebook paper.

I mention this, not to make a journal entry about journal entries, but because I just fell for the psiren song of the keyboard and lost some beautiful things by the time I got vim opened. Rats.