Today I thought it
would be fun to share a little bit more about me with you. I did some creative
writing in High School and College, but stopped writing after graduation. Life
just got in the way.
After attending the
Real Pirates exhibit in Denver, CO, in June of 2011, suddenly I was writing
again. I was writing down dreams in a journal and also doing extensive research
which eventually led to my first published article, “Peter Cornelius Hoof and Me.”
While I did take
some creative writing classes in High School and in College, I am not a
graduate of a focused creative writing program. Writing Peter’s article was
hard work, as I had to recall my research and writing techniques from school.
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| The floor desk |
When I wrote Peter’s
article I sat on pillows on the floor because I didn’t have enough desk space to
spread out my books. So the first draft
was done by hand in a spiral notebook.
Now that I have a
nicer desk chair, I do my writing at my desk and mostly directly onto the
computer. I keep notebooks around, though because sometimes I need to have that
touch with writing and real paper. Plus it’s fun to sit in a restaurant and
have people staring at you because you’re handwriting in a notebook! I’ve also
discovered that now that many kids aren’t being taught to read cursive anymore,
I’m actually writing in a sort of code! (Now how perfect is that for someone
interested in pirates?)
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| desk space! |
Recently, though, I
realized that it would be even more convenient to be able to take a small
computer with me when I go somewhere to eat or spend an afternoon. Instead of
having to transcribe everything onto the computer when I get home, I could type
right into a computer while I’m out.
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| Silver |
So a few weeks ago I picked
up Silver, a 10” HP Pavilion computer which had the added bonus of coming with
a full version of MS Office. It doesn’t have a DVD drive, but will be perfect
for the simple word processing I’m planning on using it for while I’m out of
the house.
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