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I write on a computer, but i've run the complete gambit. when i was very young, i wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. then i got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (i wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). moved on to a fountain pen. then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. then someone gave me a word processor and i was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.
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I Write On A Computer, But I've

Charles De Lint
I write on a computer, but i've run the complete gambit. when i was very young, i wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. then i got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (i wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). moved on to a fountain pen. then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. then someone gave me a word processor and i was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs.
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I use an ibm thinkpad. i just use it like a typewriter, but when i started using it in 1987, i thought i won't be able to write anymore, so i thought i'd go back to the typewriter. but you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.
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When i write, i use an underwood #5 made in 1920. someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. an electric typewriter is ready to go before i have anything to say.
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I was always writing. when i was a little kid, before i learned how to write, i would tell stories. but as soon i as capable, i started writing. i filled notebooks and notebooks until i got my first computer when i was 11. it never really occurred to me that i would do anything else.
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