Blogs and websites and online journals are so popular these days, and they're awesome ways to just put your opinions out there for people to see, especially with stronger opinons than me and even if only a few people read them. But there's just something about physical writing something down with a pen and piece of paper that makes it so much better. Maybe it's because is so much more tangible, I don't know, but it makes me feel a lot better than posting something on the Internet--but that great too!
I write most of school papers by hand first, because I'd rather cross and scribble things out that just hit backspace all the time. I even used to have a journal, but I lost sometime before last Christmas. I didn't always write directly on the page, so it had a lot of stuff taped to the covers and the pages like tickets stubs to movies and my invitation to my junior prom and loose-leaf pages I had written during school or something when I didn't have it with me. It's somewhere in my room I think, so I hope I find it when I pack some stuff up to go off to college.
Maybe it's because paper and ink seems more permanent to me, which is weird to think about because of how fragile paper is , but with things saved electronically, all you have to do is click on "delete" and it's gone forever, at least as far you'll ever know or care.
going along with this too, I think letter writing is an art that has been lost through the phone and e-mail. Of course, it's not practical and I don't do it often, but for the same reasons as above, I just think it's a little nicer and a little more formal.
i agree. i keep a regular journal too along with my other blogs. There's something different about the feeling of finishing a written entry. It's more...permanent...and ....it's...history.
I should print out all my online blogs and put them in a book....
It doesn't really bother me. It bothers me because most people write a lot poorly on the Internet then they do on paper, but I don't really have a preference for a notebook and a paper.
When I write e-mails, I often make them as formal and intensively proofread as a standard letter, depending on who the audience is.
I write everything on the computer. Writing by hand is too slow for me, and it's too dificult to work with sentence structure. I can see your point of view, though, because I often proofread by hand - I print out my work and go over it with a pen.
...but I do appreciate the written word, at the very least. I find it rather sad that many schools aren't bothering to teach penmanship anymore. Since it does provide a cognitive service, I feel it's extremely important, but considering we're in the "digital age" now, I suppose a lot of people don't find it important in the least.
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt."
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one."
H. L. Mencken