Seven Degrees Left of Center

Interrupted by Writing Errors

The next greatest gift to independent thought is writing those thoughts down. The hardest thing about writing thoughts down is not watching the errors grow on screen, at least in my experience.

I get caught up in the errors, and I lose my thoughts because a misspelled word trips the process. I can't help but look at the screen as the letters appear. Then, my brain can't move past the errors to the end. I am forcing myself not to look at the screen to get these thoughts out of my brain and onto the screen before editing. Oops, I looked!

Crap, now I lost my thoughts and have to fix errors. I'll be right back ...

I may need to use an older text editor that doesn't catch mistakes. How about copying and pasting for corrections? Do you have any suggestions?