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		<title>The lure of a fresh pad of paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts on writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do most of my writing directly on the computer because it&#8217;s a lot faster than trying to write stuff out by hand, and when I&#8217;m a few thousand words into something and suddenly decide that the beginning is all wrong, it makes it that much easier to go back and fix things. Still, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do most of my writing directly on the computer because it&#8217;s a lot faster than trying to write stuff out by hand, and when I&#8217;m a few thousand words into something and suddenly decide that the beginning is all wrong, it makes it that much easier to go back and fix things. Still, I do love paper and find it very hard to resist a brand new fresh pad of paper or a notebook. It&#8217;s like those blank lines are just waiting for me to fill them up with brilliant ideas.</p>
<p>For me, computers don&#8217;t lend themselves to outlines, for that only a good old fashioned pen and paper will do. With that in mind I sat down last night with a crisp new pad of paper and some ideas dancing through my head that I wanted to jot down as a very rough outline. I didn&#8217;t get too far before I was fighting off sleep and writing things that turned out to be gibberish. I felt like I was back in my overheated Spanish II classroom all over again trying to keep my eyes open while Senora prattled on in a language I couldn&#8217;t understand. Just like in Spanish II, I succumbed to sleep and I&#8217;ll have to take another stab at that outline on my now not quite clean pad of paper.</p>
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