I'm very keyboard oriented. I find the act of wielding a pen or pencil to be hard, slow, and unpleasant labor, but I can wave my fingers effortlessly across a keyboard and make my thoughts appear on a blank screen as if by magic since typing is so natural that it draws no attention to itself and is not a physical strain of any kind the way pen-writing is for me. And with computers I no longer write "drafts" but poke and tweak and fiddle and play with the text as if it were a hunk of clay I were shaping and adjusting. At times, however, I write short poems in my head because something occurs to me while I am out, but when that happens I am in an anxious state until I manage to get the gist of it down (smart phone to the rescue) since my memory for such things isn't reliable.
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