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Maybe I'm just a little slow today, but I had a hard time figuring out what
your definition of "CW" was. In my world, it means either "Country and
Western" (in which I have no interest whatever, so I don't care if my
aptitude for that is impaired), or "Continuous Wave telegraphy" (i. e.,
Morse code, which I thoroughly enjoy). You'll be happy to know that I can
still do Morse code at 30 to 35 words per minute, so I guess being a tech
writer hasn't hurt me in that department! (BTW, I subscribe to a few ham
radio lists, along with TECHWR-L, so I wasn't even sure which category your
post was in when I first saw the Subject line. ;-)
After rebooting my brain a couple of times, I finally realized you were
talking about "Creative Writing." I have to agree that the regimented
environment we typically work in *does* tend to make it harder to get going
on something more free-form and spontaneous. I find that it all depends on
the mood I'm in at the time. Sometimes the TW side doesn't allow me to be
as creative as I'd like; other times (but not nearly often enough), I'm
ready to just "let it flow."
As for the effects on the brain...I don't know! There may be something to
it, but I think MY brain has long since been short-circuited by things more
powerful than tech writing rules!
Have a nice day (or as my ham friends would say, 73 ES CUL).
SRH (AB2V)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Archie Ziviello [SMTP:aziviello -at- NESL -dot- COM]
> Sent: 05 August 1999 09:25
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: TW impaired CW?
>
> Has anyone found that TW impairs their CW?
>
> I double as newsletter editor/story writer and I have found its becoming
> more and more the struggle to write interesting newsletter articles. I'm
> actually having some anxiety about it. I'm not sure if I'm simply out of
> practice with creative writing or that the edicts of TW are re-routing the
> nuerons in the brain?
>
> Observations?
>
> Comments?
>
> Archie
>
>
