Every year, there is some new form of technology introduced into the “writersphere,” and each one seems as though it has the ability to help you write in a way that you have never written before (or would ever have thought to write). Many of them, while well intentioned, usually require the writer to explore a learning curve in an effort to make use of the technology in a productive and meaningful way. For those of us who can remember using typewriters, there was indeed a learning curve there, just as it was for word processors, computers, and wide array of more portable writing devices. Even now, there are the numerous soft ware programs that allow us to organize, format, and export our writing into other forms, and each one has a learning curve that could be daunting to its user.
A few years ago, while walking through the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va., with my wife and daughter, I came across a notebook in which Edgar Allan Poe had written various notes on a project. I found myself staring at his handwriting, realizing that particular technology was still something widely available in the present day and that I had not given it even a second thought up until that point. I suddenly found
