How many times have you begun a conversation only to stumble through your thoughts? How about difficulty in describing how your feel or details of your ideas? What type of impression do you think that left on the person listening?
When I think
of writers, the first thing that comes to mind is someone hunched over a
vintage typewriter. Perhaps you remember - the kind with the messy
ribbons and the distinct, round, little buttons. The clacking noise they
made is a far cry from today's quiet-touch keyboards. Not to mention there are
no strikers on your keyboard to get tangled.
But I digress,
perhaps these writers of old instinctively knew something that only later
surfaced in research of psycholinguistics, (psychology of language), which
suggests many benefits come from putting thought into the written word.
How much better do
we feel when our thoughts are organized and refined? One of the ways to
accomplish this, easily, is to just - write them down. Computers are remarkable
tools but have their limitations.
