{"id":1737,"date":"2014-07-31T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T06:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2014-07-12T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T14:28:46","slug":"writing-with-my-eyes-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/07\/writing-with-my-eyes-shut\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing with My Eyes Shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I relearn that with hands on the keys, I can shut my eyes and still write.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, I was trying to write in the evening after a long day at work of reading and reading and reading and a little writing. My eyes hurt. I had to shut them.<\/p>\n<p>So I did. (I shut my eyes)<\/p>\n<p>Then I kept writing. (with my eyes shut)<\/p>\n<p>Funny it works, but I can write with my eyes shut. Yes, I make more typo errors than with my eyes open, but it is a computer editor and fixing typos is pretty easy.<\/p>\n<p>I carried this trick to a seminar I attended. I learned that I could type notes while looking up at the different people who were talking. I couldn&#8217;t do that when I was trying to take notes with pencil and paper.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks ago, I re-tried this old trick. It still works. I am typing this blog post while looking at a Reese&#8217;s Peanut Butter Cup commercial on television. I learned something new:<\/p>\n<p>I type a little faster when my eyes are shut or when I am looking away from the computer screen. I can&#8217;t explain that, but that is my experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I relearn that with hands on the keys, I can shut my eyes and still write. Several years ago, I was trying to write in the evening after a long day at work of reading and reading and reading and a little writing. My eyes hurt. I had to shut them. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,5],"tags":[171,128],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-writing","tag-adapting","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","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=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}