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6.0: Introduction
Oct. 9th, 2009 11:26 pmFingers hover above a keyboard, and their strokes tell stories that can vault the hurdles of time and space.
Mostly they don't, though. Instead, our keystrokes are more likely to remind us to pick up the cleaning, or pay the bills, or deal with the myriad other mundane aspects of our lives, thus marking out a fairly broad range of what we can write about. It's what one might call a "target-rich environment."
Hi, my name is Alex, and I’m a compulsive writer.
Not unlike the unfortunate artist who dreams in brush strokes and earns a living painting houses, I spend my time translating technical documents from Russian and French into English, putting my words to someone else’s thoughts. Any residual urges to tap upon a keyboard have been kept under control - mostly - by posting to my LiveJournal, which was created back when membership numbers were four digits long.
This is my second year participating in LJ Idol. I was fortunate enough to survive for quite a while in last year’s event, and along the way, I was able to realize my twin goals of rubbing elbows with others who share my compulsion and of learning something new.
Some of what I learned the last time around, I’m still struggling to understand, and some of what I understand raises my eyebrows. In the meantime, here I am, back again, seeking to broaden my horizons once more, and to reinforce those mental processes and pathways that guide my fingers over that keyboard.
Good luck to everyone!
Mostly they don't, though. Instead, our keystrokes are more likely to remind us to pick up the cleaning, or pay the bills, or deal with the myriad other mundane aspects of our lives, thus marking out a fairly broad range of what we can write about. It's what one might call a "target-rich environment."
Hi, my name is Alex, and I’m a compulsive writer.
Not unlike the unfortunate artist who dreams in brush strokes and earns a living painting houses, I spend my time translating technical documents from Russian and French into English, putting my words to someone else’s thoughts. Any residual urges to tap upon a keyboard have been kept under control - mostly - by posting to my LiveJournal, which was created back when membership numbers were four digits long.
This is my second year participating in LJ Idol. I was fortunate enough to survive for quite a while in last year’s event, and along the way, I was able to realize my twin goals of rubbing elbows with others who share my compulsion and of learning something new.
Some of what I learned the last time around, I’m still struggling to understand, and some of what I understand raises my eyebrows. In the meantime, here I am, back again, seeking to broaden my horizons once more, and to reinforce those mental processes and pathways that guide my fingers over that keyboard.
Good luck to everyone!
