Anyway.. i use type writer before when I was in elementary.. But nit now :)

Anyway, I write my posts using MS Word for more than 4 hours when late night, and I cannot sleep until it’s done. Then I view it multiple times after I published it, and it makes me feel good. I then tell my self that I just finished another masterpiece.

I just don’t know if it’s weird.

That might not be too weired but that is how i write.

My old-timer habit is books. I know I’m not alone in this, but we’re heading into a time when books are going to become increasingly digitized (especially since Oprah recently endorsed Kindle). When I think about it, I feel like I should make the switch (you know, to save the trees) but the thought of not having shelves and shelves of bound paper and ink is just a little over the top, even for this modern tech-loving reader.

I compose nearly all of my posts off-line too – partly because, like you, I’ve had a few lost to connectivity quirks, but also because I rarely have the opportunity to draft posts entirely in a single sitting. Instead, I rough out some ideas (usually in Notepad++) and stash them in a Google Docs document. Then I revisit, refine, lather, rinse, repeat… until I get where I want to go.

I know that practice is kinda tedious and seems protracted, but this way I can work on posts from anywhere – my PC at work, my ancient & ailing desktop PC at home, or even on my notebook sitting on the bathroom floor during my son’s evening bathtime. I’ve gone to using Google apps, Foxmarks, and other “cloud” tools quite often so I can work on stuff from anywhere.

On a separate note: my mom had a typewriter and I always used to imagine myself as a writer back in Grade 1. What fun that was!

OK, here’s mine, I just can NOT go by a misspelled mispelled missppelled word without stopping to correct it. Fie on you Richard Brodie!

I typically write out my blogs in a word processor and save it before I upload it. I have learned through various bad experiences that you always save a copy of your work before you upload it. Not only do you save it before you upload it, but you save it often as you write it. There are any number of things that can happen that will erase several good minutes (hours) of work and ruin a person’s day. Plus, word processors make it easier to pick out and fix those terrible typos. They are so annoying.

And while I don’t drink coffee, my (hot) tea is always icy by the time I get back to it. It is terrible, especially this time of year when the weather is cold and we need the warm beverages to warm us up.

The things that define my blogging more than anything else is my use of double exclamation points. I personally believe that one ! is too little and three !!! is way-too-much. Thus a double !! is just right. Any time I use exclamations I typically double it up. Isn’t that great? Curiously, I do not double my ?’s. I think the curvy part of the ? makes it too bulky to effectively double it up. Also, from time to time I like to take a page out of other language punctuation techniques, and use the ¿ and ¡ at the beginning of my sentences. I do not do this all of the time because I think that many people wouldn’t understand or like it.

I always want my writing to come across as professional as possible, and such eccentricities are, in my opinion, a little too out there for the average reader. Also, I have a special signature-ish ending to all of my posts. I always write “Cheers!!” whenever I post something. I do not know why, it just kind of happens.

Hope you are well. Cheers!!