I like to read about characters who get into trouble, make mistakes, fail, and keep trying. I like to worry about characters, and wonder what risks they ll take and what problems they ll bring on themselves, as well as how they ll cope with the world. Another important thing for any writer who wants to be published is to learn to type quickly. I m not alone when I talk about the censors that live in my elbows. When I typed slowly, they had a chance to stop my ideas from getting out my fingers.
Good writing is often dumb and embarrassing.
My route to faster typing was to become a Dvorak typist. Some time during the 1930's, an efficiency expert named August Dvorak thought, one day there won t be keys. He designed a keyboard for speed. The home keys are aoeu and htns, the most commonly used characters in English. The Dvorak typist s fingers traveled less than one mile.