Valerie J. Steimle
The frustration is incredible. How can I function when my computer has
blitzed out on my emails. I can’t open any hotmail from my computer!!! Yikes. My internet server is going off every
five minutes!!! Technology
problems!!! I am going to throw this
computer out the window!!!
I’m sure those statements sound familiar to everyone. We all have to deal with modern technology,
unless we are still working in the dark ages with pen and paper and an old
clunker type writer.
I remember those days. I had my own portable typewriter back
in my college days of 1977 to 82. All of
my papers were typed on this typewriter which I loved. I whizzed through papers
like nobody’s business and was an ace at submitting all of my papers in top
form just from this portable typewriter.
But now we are in the 21st Century and we are all dependent
on our laptops, tablets and even desk top computers which I still use every
day. It would probably take double or
even triple the time to do what I did on my old portable not to mention the inability
to send off queries to agents quickly through emails. It’s just not that world anymore.
As writers we are expected to be computer savvy enough to
know our way around the programs we use to write on and store our precious
finished products. It is another world for the average writer as we are more
interested in grammar and storyline than the techie stuff of a computer. But it
is in our best interest to keep ourselves updated in computer literacy and
learn all that we can about blog designs, email attachments and other such
necessities. Attending a class in computer literacy has helped me understand
all of the technological insides.
Learning my way around the computer helped me tremendously
to be independent on retrieving lost manuscripts, making back up copies and
even converting files to other forms so I can publish my books in Kindle and
Nook. It is an incredible world and writers need to be abreast of computer abilities.
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