{"id":1090,"date":"2012-04-12T01:11:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2012-04-04T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T13:18:45","slug":"touch-typing-for-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/04\/touch-typing-for-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch Typing (for Writers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>As boring as it may seem, writers should work on their typing skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found a web site today that I will visit frequently for a while:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/typingclub.com\/\">TypingClub.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, that is it. A website that let&#8217;s me work on my typing skills. And what wonderful thing does that have to do with writing? Two questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How long does it take to write a page of that novel or non-fiction business or engineering book?<\/li>\n<li>Would it make any difference in your writing life if you could write two pages instead of one in the same amount of time?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The answer to number 1 really doesn&#8217;t matter. The answer to number 2 is, &#8220;Yes, of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hence, work on your touch typing. Double your typing speed. Improve your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips As boring as it may seem, writers should work on their typing skills. I found a web site today that I will visit frequently for a while: TypingClub.com Yes, that is it. A website that let&#8217;s me work on my typing skills. And what wonderful thing does that have to do with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}