1) My electronic writing experieces include email, facebook, and myspace. I used to post poetry in the myspace blogs and on facebook it's mainly just comments and the occasional chat. Lately though, I've cut out a lot of electronic writing. It's not as satisfying for me.
2) The only way my writing changes through the electronic medium is adding in things for emotional effect like smiley faces for example. I've always tried to use as few abbreviations as possible and avoid the saavy text lingo. I love writing, and I think that the writing process is much more solid with a pen and paper. You can physically see the edits and additions you've made to the writing, and with that you can remember what you need to fix the next time. On a computer, you can only see the the writing after it's been fixed up and that, for me, makes it a lot harder to remember my weaknesses and what I did poorly. A lot of spelling and grammatical errors are easily corrected without your knowledge when you type up a paper so we aren't really learning from those mistakes, which allows us to continue to make those same mistakes over and over when physically writing. While electronic writing is emmensly helpful in some ways, at the same time it is destroying some even more helpful things that come about with pen and paper.
It's nice to hear from someone who actually "loves writing," Melanie. I fully embrace electronic writing (obviously), but there's still something about the organic feel of putting pen to paper.
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