Tools of the Trade

We are in an increasingly technological world.  Laptops, cell phones, ipads, internet, ipods, even the Wii has wifi.  Wifi is everywhere: Starbucks, Borders, Books-A-Million--my friend even saw it in a gas station!  Everyone is connected--it's a connection overload.

The publishing industry is becoming more tech savvy too.  E-books, e-readers, and internet books are everywhere!  Authors have to learn to use internet networking sites--Facebook, Twitter, Myspace.  It's not enough to be a good writer anymore, to a certain extent you also have to be a marketing guru/internet god. 

For someone as paper-loving and tech-challenged as me this is some scary sh--stuff.  Let me show you my tools of the trade:

This, my tech geek friends, is something called paper.  Dictionary.com provides the following definiton:

Paper:  a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw or other fibrous material, usually

           in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.

All you really need to know about paper is I love it.  I love the way it smells.  I love the way it feels between my fingers as I turn the pages of a book.  I like the way it looks (way better than the glare of a screen).  I like the way it sounds, faintly of rustling leaves, when you flip through it.  I love paper.  I think the loss of paper books is a travesty. 

I only have one other tool in my arsenal:



That's right! A pen.  That, my friends, is a quality clicky pen from a local drugstore. It was free. It's fabulous.  I scratch my lovely flowing scrawl onto my pulpy fibrous substance with beautiful black ink and watch new worlds unfold before my eyes.  How wondrous is this thing we call a pen!  Oh wonder of wonders this pen and paper that go together better than peanut butter and jelly. 

These are the tools of my trade, and I love them more than jewelry.  Well maybe not--but they definitely come in a close second!

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