Re: Pinsky poem in the Atlantic "Jar of Pens"

["CB Casper" <knowone -at- surfy -dot- net>]

Pen? Pencil?

Neither, my handwritting so is attrocious that even
I have problems reading it.

Only a keyboard will do for real writing, and I'm much faster on a keyboard.

Dad wrote his computer textbooks in long hand using
a mechanical pencil, while mom got the job of typing from the notes into the TRS80 to send to the publisher on a 8" floppy.

I still find it amusing that the writer of computer
textbooks didn't use them for writing the books! 
Mom & dad met at a college typing class,
so that wasn't an excuse; then again, he was
distracted from his lessons . . . .

Eventually the publisher allowed dad to list mom
as a co-author, after many years of trying.

CB
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Being an inveterate pen person, I was pleased by this.

The question is: Are all writers pen people? Or mechanical pencil people?
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