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One of the nice things about writing is that it’s largely unaffected by trendiness. I’m not talking about story styles or the popularity of genres. I’m talking about accessories and tools.

I mean, I use a fairly standard Acer Aspire and MS Office 2007, and while other folks may prefer an earlier version of Word, or a different brand of computer, it’s not like, say, shoes; there’s not UGG Australia word processor out there that all the hot, fashionable writings are composing their scripts with.

I hope the day where that changes never comes.

Writing is hard enough with you have everything you need handy; it’s a lot harder when you’re missing something. Today, I was hoping to finish off a lesson I was writing for a class at my church, but I didn’t have any of my reference materials handy. Even though I only have a couple paragraphs or so to go, I just couldn’t get it done.

Writing without references handy won’t win anyone a CPM or anything, and it also doesn’t exactly result in accurate prose. So I had to put the project off.

That’s where creative writing is a bit more flexible; your handiest reference material is your brain, and it’s hard to lose that.