Howdy,
What can I write if I just start tapping with my thumbs?
Not a nervous, writer’s block toe tapping. Typing tapping, which doesn’t feel like writing but creates words, sentences, paragraphs, even a blog post and published pieces in a book.
Is the source of the start significant in a composition? Or is a draft a draft? A thought a thought, an idea an idea, a rambling a rambling, compiled on paper, er, or wherever—and if thumbed together that’s going to be on a screen. A small screen. Not even a computer monitor or a laptop. On a phone’s face.
Can anything of value possibly be written on a little mobile phone, “typed” on a touchscreen?
Well, they’re now trying to sell smartphones for $700, $800, and soon $1000, so when it comes to value (or should we say cost?) these ubiquitous handhelds (hand-holders) are practically computers, right? Only more expensive in some cases.
That’s ridiculous.
But … look what you can do on one of these phones, standing in a library watching your kids play with Legos and thumb through books, and I only have a dying 5s.
So don’t bite your thumb at the source of the start. And if it ends up it’s dumb you’ve got more than one thumb at which to point a finger.
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Living.
Word Count: 191,223 / On Pace: 194,150 / Year’s Goal: 200,000
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