Mid-Willamette Fiction Writers

Current Project: Galley edits for Spirit of the Sky
Status: working on it


So since my first blog on this topic earlier in the month nothing has changed about my inability to use technology.


I do have my website up and running, but my printer is still not talking to the new computer and in desperation , I hooked the old laptop back up just to make copies. Which means putting info I want copied onto a flash drive and then putting it in the laptop and printing. 


What's funny is I couldn't wait, back in the 80's, when I was writing on a typewriter for the day I could afford a computer. I helped in the kids' school in the computer technology room to learn how to use the beasts and the instructor would let me use the computer in between classes to write my stories and put them on a big square disk. 


Finally, the day arrived I could get computer. I bought a Mac. That's what they had in the schools and I told my husband that way I'd have help if I ran into problems.. But man was that an investment back then!  


It was wonderful to be able to delete and enter words all over in the document without having to retype everything! 


But then I came to another problem, the Mac's back then didn't play nice with other computers and when I wanted to critique with other people they couldn't read my stuff and I coudln't read their stuff. So I floundered along until the day came when I threw my hands in the air, told my dh I needed a computer that talked with everyone else and became a DELL fan.  I gave the Mac to a friend of the family who was headed off to college and have been happy with my choice ever since. 


Except for the fact I am so darn technology challenged that it takes me days to figure out how to do some things on some programs.  And after all these years I still don't have the fearlessness it takes to push keys and see what happens. I'm always afraid I'm going to mess something up. Because usually, I do!