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I had a typewriter when I was in college taking creative writing classes. With a typewriter you could write in longhand and then type your final copy, or you could compose on the typewriter which forced you to think about each word and each phrase, etc. White out and correction tape was a pain to deal with and not used unless absolutely necessary. There was much more thinking about what you wanted to say before putting it down. With computers writing is almost too easy. With a click you can do away with words, pages and entire documents. Who needs to think about it? Why bother spending a lot of time considering what you want to say when it is so easy to undo? However, the downside of this is not having your edited copies to refer to unless you save everything, like I do. And how many crooked pages came out of my typewriter????
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