Keyboards Are Sexy

So excited I can type on the tablet with my keyboard now. :) Much faster and easier though I can still type pretty fast directly on the tablet- the keyboard is just less distracting though. Less times I have to stop mid thought to double or tripple check my text.

This works out really good since I’ve been spending so much time with my friends off the grid- away from internet. I’m all for stepping away from the electronics for a bit and enjoying life and nature but when it comes to my writing a notebook just won’t do 100% of the time. I fill them in a matter of days and can’t keep up with my thoughts as I’m having them unless I’m okay with no chance of being able to read my own handwriting. Some of my friends say they prefer handwriting because it gives them more time to think about what they’re writing and I can understand that. When I’m working on the final proof of something it’s not uncommon for me to take a pen and paper out to outline it or fine tune a paragraph or two before I type it out.

It’s the same way for pen versus pencil. Pencil obviously allows for finer tuning but pen allows you to capture the freeform thought, to keep it. To prevent yourself from editing, rediting, and spending countless hours just changing what you have instead of moving forward and then later transforming it as a whole. Keyboards make me feel like that. Like I’m getting the raw split second thoughts and passions down on the paper.

Another reason I think I’m more comfortable with a keyboard instead of pen and paper is because when I was little I used a typewriter. When I was 7 I had a play one I wrote my first stories on, mostly gibberish and random pressing of keys but still. :) And when I was 8 I progressed to my mothers huge electronic keyboards, sitting on an old milk crate and picking away at the keys day after day till my first story was complete: Chopped Bread.

Not the best idea choosing to write that bit. I wish my mother had been interested enough in her child to look at it before I took it to school and showed a teacher. That whole thing has haunted me for years. I’m not going to write about it here, not just yet, but I will say it hindered my writerly self esteem and willingness to share for a long time.

Back to keyboards. I love them. They make me happy in every possible way. The sound, the feeling of a key depressing, how fast my fingers can pass over them. :) It’s sexy.

Unbroken

So it’s been awhile, yeah?

First of all please forgive any silly simple mistakes. This is my first time writing a post on my new tablet. Most certainly an interesting experience. Not quite used to the keyboard yet and whishing the space bar was a little more sensitive but I’m not worried. I know I’ll pick up speed before this year’s NaNoWriMo especially since I don’t  have to degrade my fingers and capabilities with any abhorent thumb typing. Don’t me wrong, I’m sure it’s not nearly as bad as I make it seem but I see so many people using the same word methods (ppl, b4 u, ectv…) in reglar txt and writing that it makes me sad for what I  see as the devolution of a language- and I love language damnit!

Speaking of language love- I’m learning Japanese soo keep an eye out for some posts on that. Also spending a lot of time on origami, chess, crochet and even gradually finding my way back to my sketching. :) It’s been a good/bad seasons for me. This time of year has always been a bit iffy but I’m taking better steps this time around and I’m excited for how okay I feel even on the bad days. :)

On that note I  have arather passionate thought I  like to share. This year I  have a very special project planned for NaNoWriMo. I’m not sure how much I’ll reveal here but I’ve told everyone else that its top secret. Almost funy considering how much and how easilly I  can babble on and on abiut any of my stories but this one is special. Dear to my heart and deeper still, dear to my very core.

Two stories have been twinning about my soul since long before I  knew my own name, their unwritten words so much a part of me that I’ve considered them impossible to breathe into ink.

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Oh my happy gods! I just discovered I can use my wireless keyboard with the tablet! How freaking cool is that!  I’m having attention span issues in regards to what I was working on because I’m so excited. I love my keyboard. Keyboards make me happy!  I’ll come back to this post when the mood strikes. :)

Let It Be

It’s time to get back to writing.

Time to find my words.

What once was lost shall now be found.

Heard on cobweb words whispered on the wind.

Let it be.