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By: Teresa K Thorne

Teresa K Thorne — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:45:52 +0000

What a coincidence! I had a hard-drive crash and phone crash this past week. Hmmm. Maybe we both need a sacrifice to the IT gods….
As for vacation–if I don’t have time to write, it is not a vacation. Okay, that is not absolutely true, but I get antsy without writing time. Maybe that’s because I juggle a job with my writing, and one day, when I am writing full time, I will welcome time off from “work.”

By: Maggie

Maggie — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:08:01 +0000

Congrats on *almost* disconnecting. It’s a challenge, for sure!

My Blackberry pulled a similar trick lately, and someone suggested taking the battery out for a few minutes, then putting it back in. If some battery-sucking process is running in the background, this will interrupt it. It worked for me – might be worth a try if you haven’t done it already.

By: Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa

Siri Kirpal Kaur Khalsa — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:41:25 +0000

My favorite vacations are the ones where my husband goes somewhere and I stay home on a writing retreat.

I don’t own a cell phone, and wouldn’t if you paid me. But sometimes the digital demons do get loose anyway. My husband just tweaked the computer so it would function better.

By: EDWARD

EDWARD — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:16:11 +0000

As I sit at my laptop and respond to your blog, you don’t really expect me to say that technology sucks, do you? But there are many pitfalls that have not yet come to the surface. Before computers, Jack Kerouac had the habit of sitting in the back seat and writing on an endless roll of shelf paper. When Truman Capote heard of this, he quipped “That’s not writing. It’s typing!” Technology has always given people who others think have questionable talent to burst out to the front of the pack. It’s nothing new. But to intentionally open wide the door and allow in the dumb people in massive herds: that the Americans in the 21st century seem to have a monopoly on. There are many people who owe their careers to technology, not their merits as an artist. I am sure you can think of many with little prompting. I think Capote and Kerouac were both gifted in there own way; that is what makes the example so stunning. And historic.

By: Sarah Henson

Sarah Henson — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:21:45 +0000

When I vacation, which is rare, I try to leave everything behind. Sometimes I even, gasp, turn my phone off. (I know, I’m amazing, haha). I can’t turn my brain off though, so I carry a small moleskin in my purse to jot down story ideas or plot developments as they come to me. I don’t do any actual writing until I return home though.

By: Esther

Esther — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:50:05 +0000

I typed a long-ish comment here that I can’t really retype… but because I entered the wrong captcha, everything got erased. Just thought I’d let you know. It doesn’t seem as though your site has a cache for wrong captchas, or something (not really sure how it works, but yeah).

Nice post, though.