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YahooMy boyfriend's sixteen year old son just finished NaNoWriMo, and he's pretty proud, as he should be. If you don't know, November is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. He got about 49,200 words farther than I did. Ah, youthful energy (and no small infant taking up every minute of your "free" time).
He was explaining this whole thing to his grandmother and aunt last weekend. "I wrote it on my laptop," he said. "Some people actually write it out by hand first, which is just stupid!"
I had to laugh, because any story I've ever written was most definitely written by hand before it was pecked out on a keyboard. Back in my college days as a writing major, I kept a lot of journals. Some of them were required, but I'd been journaling since I was a kid.
A lot of us have blogs where we record many of the events of our daily lives. I've done this for over ten years, but I've always kept a paper journal, too. Writing there is different than it is when I'm typing, sometimes my fingers moving too fast for my brain to keep up. When I write on paper, I'm more deliberate, more thoughtful.
Good or a bad thing? I don't know. Maybe I'm in a minority. Do any of you still believe in the paper diary? Is the idea of using a PEN to WRITE WORDS a laughable idea to kids these days?
Amy
