Yesterday, over lunch at an international conference, I was chatting to one of the other speakers. He was a fellow author, sometime journalist, and commentator.
He had written a book a while ago and I suggested he could update and repurpose the book for business. He wasn't interested. Lots of reasons why, but plainly he couldn't be bothered. "But all you need to do is create a new outline, think of where to find some statistics to update it and then hire someone from student job search or even overseas to do it all for you inexpensively". Again, he gave an excuse 'it's not my thing, do you want to do it for me"?
The conversation moved to how he wrote. "I've gone back to the fountain pen'.
I tried not to stare in horror. After all he writes for a living. "How do you submit your articles" I queried. "Oh, I do (re)write them on the computer. But I'm so slow, I'm a two finger typist" he replied holding up the forefingers of both hands."
He carried on. "It's the worst when I turn on all caps by mistake and I'm half a page down before I know it. Then I have to enter a lot of space, to move what I wrote down and then retype it"
Now I did look at him in horror. "Oh my goodness, that can be fixed in a second! There's a function in Word that you can highlight your text, and change the case of the text to sentence case" I replied.
