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wildfire405  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We’ve adapted our reading habits to fit our screens, but at a cost.

That's impressive--writing on paper. When I left high school, we were just leaving the world of hand-written stuff. I had enough experience hand writing stuff, but in college, when I REALLY started writing quality stuff, I appreciated how flexible typing was. I don't do rough drafts anymore because the text is constantly evolving--it's fluid--until I finally decide to hit "attach" and off it goes to the professor or on to a blog or something. I LOVE the act of writing on a computer. But, still for eye-fatigue's sake, I print it out to proofread it.





TaylorS1986  ·  3422 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have always preferred typing because the motor issues stemming from my Asperger's makes my handwriting atrocious.

DJWalnut  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·  

someone should make an e-ink computer monitor

War  ·  3424 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm in college too. We are required to produce all work typed on the computer. We usually just hand in the file. In that regard I'm kind of stuck, but I still write drafts because I found that if I typed them I would get lazy with my editing from draft to draft. Most of my handwriting is done for leisurely hobbies, but I also conform to the requirements of what writing and reading have become.