(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.

sj, I love blank books, notebooks, sketchbooks etc. and I have many of them. Actually, a friend of mine is doing that "Artist's Way" thing and talked about doing the "morning pages" on her computer instead of handwriting them, so I thought I'd try that this morning. And I'm not sure, I think that I like the physical process of writing for this purpose. Plus, that sort of typing (it took me like 50 minutes to get my three pages) is very tiring and I type all day at work. On the other hand, I like typing and my handwriting is v. illegible. But my journals are mostly personal journals, not for others to read so I don't worry about it.

The drabbles I've done were typed from start to finish.

Excellent, Nova. A drabble with a point.