tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753047208077056954.post7572619777873065083..comments2023-11-09T07:09:33.891-08:00Comments on Utah Children's Writers: Ain't it wonderful?Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10166492055392141231noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8753047208077056954.post-11279225643194912402012-09-06T17:21:50.941-07:002012-09-06T17:21:50.941-07:00My writing life changed forever in 1983 with my fi...My writing life changed forever in 1983 with my first word processing program, which I "programmed" myself by typing in the program from a computer magazine. We used to do that kind of thing back then. SpeedScript didn't have many features. You could transpose two characters and do basic formatting of text and of the page, once you learned the keystrokes needed to issue commands. No spellcheck or styles or templates or other features I take for granted now. But I could make changes at will and move sentences and paragraphs around, without needing to retype. I could write my drafts on the computer, so there was no more trying to decipher my penmanship, which is never good but gets even worse when writing quickly during creative sprints. And then I could print at a blazing four pages per minute. I've written very little by hand since then.Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07450784902644202694noreply@blogger.com