Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

This one has been buzzing around in my head for a few years. What do you call it when you are trying to write and you need to write words?

Words on the page – doesn’t work until you run your printer.

Words on the screen – that sort of works, but those words aren’t really stored on the computer, just temporary.

So, it hit me – Words on Disk. That even becomes a pronounceable acronym – WOD (pronounced wod to rhyme with dirt clod and bod-y and slob).

And Words on Disk leads me to the phrase Blank Disk to be the computer equivalent of blank page.

Okay, this isn’t earth shattering, but it is something that hit me while encouraging a team of people to stop talking and start writing so that we could finish a proposal and earn some business.