Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Are you not a writer? Really. Just type the words you say.

“You must understand, Dwayne, you are a writer,” several people over the years.

Yes, I am cursed or blessed to be “a writer.” What do I do? I put my fingers on the keyboard and type the words that come mind. That’s about all there is to it as I sit here in Starbucks sipping coffee and thinking about stuff. Tap the keys. There, I wrote.

I encourage others to “write.” I suppose I am not a good encourage-er as few of the folks I encourage go on and write.

Still not encouraged? Try this one: dictate to the computer. The computer types the words onto the screen. Not good grammar and punctuation and such? Paste the dictated stuff into ChatGPT or Bard or something and let it fix up the words.

There, you talked about what you thought and the computer made it look like you wrote it. That’s about it anyways, words that you thought.

Try it. You will probably help the rest of us with your words.