A Writer's Quandary

So I guess it is about time that I actually created my own blog.

I'm not really sure why I have been against this whole idea for so long - kind of weird when you think about it, seeing as how I call myself a "writer" and all. I guess maybe it's because as a writer I feel obliged to shun any type of writing that doesn't actually appear on a tangible material - and by that I mean something in actual print - the type that smudges straight off the old-school printer -a book, newspaper..well pretty much any one of the materials that have been housing the work of writers throughout time - up to this point at least.

I understand that you can certainly argue that a computer is tangible too, and I can't really develop a great argument for that, other than to say - no matter what many people believe about the future of books and writing, you will not see me cuddling up with my computer, or any other electronic device, to read a book anytime soon. End of story-I even love the way old books smell and old bookstores are just the best - you can get lost in them for hours. I definitely could never get that same great sense of nostalgia while browsing a swap meet for second-hand computers..

On the other hand, I ask myself numerous times a day how writers could ever get things done in the days before the Internet. My job requires writing all day and for every assignment I work on, it seems that I am using Google just as often as I am actually writing.

Hmmm so what conclusion can I come to? I guess I am a bit of a technological hypocrite and feel somewhat like a 70 year-old saying something old-manish like 'these darn kids today..' But like the all-knowing Bob Dylan once said -"The times they are a-changing.."