Hypoxia
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Past: I wrote journals, songs, and notes on paper. Sometimes I dictated same into a reporter's cassette deck. I then transcribed and edited and improved all that on computer. I can think of maybe three stories I handwrote in the last two decades, and I only finished one of them on paper. (See my XYZ-BOMBER.)
I used to keep all my notebooks. But when I felt suicidal last year, I shredded them all. No evidence, except what's on disc. Hmmm, I forgot to wipe the tapes...
Now: I write songs and shopping lists on paper. Everything else is keyboarded, mostly on laptops ranging from 10 to 17 inches. I also have a wee Bluetooth keyboard for my 8 inch Android tablet -- I only use that when I haven't schlepped a mini-laptop with me.
Given the right circumstances -- like, taking long drives, or biking spins, or walks -- I would go the dictation route again. Motion stimulates my internal voices. Ah, more transcribing...
Why not handwrite? My print and script are not quite legible -- I trained in mechanical drawing, and I know how to letter correctly. But I usually think and type much faster than I write. If a story or account is flowing, putting it to paper just slows me intolerably.
My handwriting medium of choice: GRAPH PAPER! I still have stacks of tablets of yellow graph paper, and a few smaller notebooks of white graph paper. Why? For writing code, and organized notes, and outlines, and matrices, and equations; for drawing diagrams, especially logic and circuits and layouts and maps. And, as mentioned above, for sectioning-off projects on a page.
I used to keep all my notebooks. But when I felt suicidal last year, I shredded them all. No evidence, except what's on disc. Hmmm, I forgot to wipe the tapes...
Now: I write songs and shopping lists on paper. Everything else is keyboarded, mostly on laptops ranging from 10 to 17 inches. I also have a wee Bluetooth keyboard for my 8 inch Android tablet -- I only use that when I haven't schlepped a mini-laptop with me.
Given the right circumstances -- like, taking long drives, or biking spins, or walks -- I would go the dictation route again. Motion stimulates my internal voices. Ah, more transcribing...
Why not handwrite? My print and script are not quite legible -- I trained in mechanical drawing, and I know how to letter correctly. But I usually think and type much faster than I write. If a story or account is flowing, putting it to paper just slows me intolerably.
My handwriting medium of choice: GRAPH PAPER! I still have stacks of tablets of yellow graph paper, and a few smaller notebooks of white graph paper. Why? For writing code, and organized notes, and outlines, and matrices, and equations; for drawing diagrams, especially logic and circuits and layouts and maps. And, as mentioned above, for sectioning-off projects on a page.