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gray_areaI have the middle and ring fingers of my left hand taped together to immobilize a bruised knuckle. It makes typing, hence writing, a challenge.
You know what I mean. If you're reading this, odds are you're a writer. You've felt the words flow out of your fingertips. Those nine fingers (sorry left thumb) are part of my language center. Taking two of them out of the picture, three really because the way they're taped kind of isolates the pinky too, hobbles the expression of my thoughts. Half of me, the left side, is fine. It's why a long word like Wednesday is no problem. Knuckle, on the other hand as it were, has my right index finger hunting all over the damned place while my left is itching to go.
I have occasionally wondered if and how my writing would change if I used a Dvorak keyboard. During the retraining, of course, my writing would slow down as my words per minute plummeted. But, assuming eventual competence, what would the remapping of letters and words on to different fingers do to the way I put those words together?
You know what I mean. If you're reading this, odds are you're a writer. You've felt the words flow out of your fingertips. Those nine fingers (sorry left thumb) are part of my language center. Taking two of them out of the picture, three really because the way they're taped kind of isolates the pinky too, hobbles the expression of my thoughts. Half of me, the left side, is fine. It's why a long word like Wednesday is no problem. Knuckle, on the other hand as it were, has my right index finger hunting all over the damned place while my left is itching to go.
I have occasionally wondered if and how my writing would change if I used a Dvorak keyboard. During the retraining, of course, my writing would slow down as my words per minute plummeted. But, assuming eventual competence, what would the remapping of letters and words on to different fingers do to the way I put those words together?