January 2015: Be Fearless: Use Writing Technology

I explain my writing tool journey in two sentences: " I started writing stories using a paper and pencil. Now, I have siri, galaxy, or dragon speak as options for my first draft." This journey continues to challenge my comfort and my risk taking levels. Writers take risks each time they allow their stories to pour from their minds and onto paper. Why not take risks with the technology you have available to improve your product? My high school college prep curriculum consisted of math, science, history, literature, and language. Only the business students were allowed to take typing and shorthand. (Go figure?) When I asked to take typing I was told if I was on track to go to college, I would "always have a secretary." High schools back then had a tendency to be short-sighted when it came to women. So I bought my own typing book and learned to type the summer before my junior year. My used an used black "Underwood" standard typewriter. I ha