Procrastination

The trouble with writing on a computer is that there is too much easy distraction.

When you hole up in a room with pen and paper, or even a typewriter you don't have little temptation to peek at whats happening on facebook, or check email, or look at sports scores at the touch of a button.

Now that's not saying I can't just go in the other room and start writing, but I have a couple things to look at first...

Blank Page

White
A blank page or canvas
...So many possibilities

~Sunday in the Park with George


There is something magical about the physical act of writing.  The perfect pen weight, a smooth page, crisp black ink, an ultra fine point.  The idea that children today will no longer be taught handwriting is infinitely sad.  This just cannot be replicated by the tick tick tick of the keyboard and he glow of the screen.

While paper may seem temporary and fragile when faced with fire or water, the fragility of electronic data has cost me more than any decay.  Subversive texts can be secreted away and shared in back-rooms, the cloud can be censored and shut down at the whim of a few sufficiently powerful governments or corporations.