My desktop just died so I’ve dug out an iPad and will mount eye level with keyboard and mouse adrift. I only use it for posting on here now. I draft in fountain pen, it’s slower which is good and I like, then I type it up. I am the author of six book through trad publishing. The sixth, an award winner, will be my last on that route. My seventh is handwritten. It has just gone out to the first reader. When they return it to me it will go to the next person on the list who has asked to read it. I don’t charge, they just pay the return postage. I’m not trying to make money and can afford my outlay. It is the pleasure of creating that I find fulfilling. I’m toying with the idea of a paper monthly Substack/newsletter handwritten and sent through the post again. I like slow and community and connection.
I used a Mac laptop until last year, never Word but Pages, and never never happy about any formatting editing apps. the Mac grew old, myself too irritated, increasingly uncomfortable on sofa with that small screen, think neck and shoulders.
minus – Now I own a new iMac. initial Excitement about AI? tried it, looked at the results and switched it off. furthermore, I grew allergic to computer, aiming to limit my online activity radically. Cory Doctorow's entshittification was the last drop of info needed. seems I became demand avoidant.
plus – sometimes I love sitting the desk looking out of the window straight to the Shard which amazes me as my home is far from it. I can check the sky and the clouds; summertime I position the desk plus Mac right in front of the open window, winter, I put it behind the sofa so I overlook the lounge from there, again looking straight to the shard and the tree tops in the sky.
its good to change positions every now and then. during the covid lockdown (asking for the shard's input) it gave me an idea which turned into a huge project. after few drafts I put it aside, it was too massive.
status quo, little interest in working/writing in front of my newish iMac. time for new ground, research – happy until demand avoidant calms.
My desktop just died so I’ve dug out an iPad and will mount eye level with keyboard and mouse adrift. I only use it for posting on here now. I draft in fountain pen, it’s slower which is good and I like, then I type it up. I am the author of six book through trad publishing. The sixth, an award winner, will be my last on that route. My seventh is handwritten. It has just gone out to the first reader. When they return it to me it will go to the next person on the list who has asked to read it. I don’t charge, they just pay the return postage. I’m not trying to make money and can afford my outlay. It is the pleasure of creating that I find fulfilling. I’m toying with the idea of a paper monthly Substack/newsletter handwritten and sent through the post again. I like slow and community and connection.
Absolutely. By the way, it IS possible to switch off CoPilot. It’s just really difficult for some strange reason…
I used a Mac laptop until last year, never Word but Pages, and never never happy about any formatting editing apps. the Mac grew old, myself too irritated, increasingly uncomfortable on sofa with that small screen, think neck and shoulders.
minus – Now I own a new iMac. initial Excitement about AI? tried it, looked at the results and switched it off. furthermore, I grew allergic to computer, aiming to limit my online activity radically. Cory Doctorow's entshittification was the last drop of info needed. seems I became demand avoidant.
plus – sometimes I love sitting the desk looking out of the window straight to the Shard which amazes me as my home is far from it. I can check the sky and the clouds; summertime I position the desk plus Mac right in front of the open window, winter, I put it behind the sofa so I overlook the lounge from there, again looking straight to the shard and the tree tops in the sky.
its good to change positions every now and then. during the covid lockdown (asking for the shard's input) it gave me an idea which turned into a huge project. after few drafts I put it aside, it was too massive.
status quo, little interest in working/writing in front of my newish iMac. time for new ground, research – happy until demand avoidant calms.