t cont. The drabbles have all been done straight on the computer. I type very quickly, and the keyboard allows me to get it written before I wimp out. If I had a better printer at home, I'd print out everything. For me, a story doesn't seem completely "real" until it's been through the alchemy of print on paper.

I would, but the thing is, a lot of times I can't read what I write afterwards.But when I write an article, I much prefer my notebook to tape.(I'm old-school that way) I've been debating buying something to keep track of my dreams in though(except for ones about cigars and tunnels.)

(except for ones about cigars and tunnels.)

Those are the dreams I save most often, though no one gets to see the ones where Spike shows up and says I'm the only one who can save the day and we run off and have a grand adventure and the alarm goes off at inopportune times. t /run-on sentence

I still use pen and paper sometimes. I find it counteracts somewhat my tendency to excessively long sentences, because a long sentence takes up more space handwritten than typed, and I'm more aware of it. Also, everything I handwrite is guaranteed at least a basic edit when I type it in, which is a good discipline for me.

I've never done any writing in a notebook, really. I've been a computer baby for years.

I jot down notes on paper, but the writing is all on computer. before there were pooters, I wrote straight onto a typewriter.

I use journals and whatnots for research notes, but never for fiction.

I used to write everything by hand. In fact, as recently as the sci-fi I first started talking about in here, it was all pen & paper. But I don't buy pretty journals. I write in recycled steno pads. Piles and piles of them. I have a whole bin full of the things, just with lyrics. Which I still do almost all in longhand.

My SO's been nagging me for years, though, so I'm gradually migrating over. It's funny. It's not as though I'm all luddite about it, I'm a total technophile. Just something about it.

And almost all my recent work's been on the computer, especially all the drabbles (easy word count).

I'm about 50/50 paper journal/computer. A lot of the paper journal writing comes from my writing class, though, where a computer would be out of place. It's been done once or twice, but it's really mostly paper journals.

Unrelated to any contest or whatnot, here's a career-crisis-inspired Teacher Drabble:

I want to make a difference.

I was told I was smart, was capable, was going to change the world. I was going to learn, and then I was going to do. Change the world with my mind.

I was going to make a difference.

I failed. I'm not an inventor, not a researcher. I'm not a genius, and not destined for greatness.

I can still make a difference.

Changing a child can change the world. I can do that. I can show a child beauty, help him to grow.

I can be a teacher.

I will make a difference.

I will make a difference.

I admire you for your aspiration.