Did I Give Writers a Bad Name?
Quite unintentionally
Quite unintentionally
In my last story, I may have unintentionally given readers the impression that I am unable to walk and chew gum at the same time.
The fact is that I regularly play my guitar and sing while I am riding on my horse at my Writer Squeezin’s ranch, so you see that is definitely not the case.
But the fact I was trying to bring out was, that important stuff is best done alone. Privately. It's not that you just can't do two things at once. You just can't always do them well.
It’s a lot like having a high school girlfriend.
Better to just have one.
Jugglers belong in the circus, not in high school drama beat-down court.
Writing is a very cerebral activity. Cerebral activities often involve the brain, but not in an automatic way, such as breathing or gagging. It involves paying attention.
Your degree of attention can vary some. At times I use the voice recorder app on my phone. Often I use the voice typing feature on my computer.
Being a reformed bean-counter, I have to tell you I can use a 10-key adding machine pretty well without looking at it, but I can't type very well at all. When I do type, sometimes I race with the screensaver to finish a sentence.
Point is, using tools is not cheating. You still have to watch what you are doing so as not to drive into a journalistic ditch. All I was saying was to 1)watch the road and 2)only drive in one lane at a time.
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