A Writer Stops for Nothing
I was so eager to finish the first draft of the Lazy Designer II that even a faulty keyboard could not stop me.
Have you spotted the problem yet :)
Brent Knowles
Former lead designer at BioWare (Dragon Age: Origins, Neverwinter Nights). Creator of Raiders of the Serpent Sea.
30 Comments
Jordan Ellinger
Thr’s no ‘ ‘ ky?
Brent Knowles
Corr’ct!
Brent Knowles
The ‘e’ key started sticking during writing so I ripped it off and shoved another key in its place.
Bizarrely, my replacement key works fines as an ‘e’ AND the ‘e’ key, which I put in the other key’s place also works fine now.
Jordan Ellinger
Wird. I wondr what th problm was?
Laurie Tom
As long as you know it’s the “e” and the computer knows that it’s the “e” I guess that’s all that matters. :)
Brent Knowles
We’ll see what happens after more keys fail. It could start to become confusing.
Bill Ward
Be careful, you know how writers can get superstitious. You may very well find yourself popping and swapping keys on every new keyboard you get as part of some strange ritual logic….
Brent Knowles
Uh oh. That would be bad. I could imagine myself going into a new store for a keyboard and shuffling the keys around to get a feel for it before the purchase.
I’m sure that would go over well.
Tedora
:-))) very *nice*
Artrotter99
If I see right , you have a “dot” between W and R . it should be E
Emily Veinglory
I’ve had to replace a few keys in my time too ;)
Brent Knowles
Yep, the ‘e’ key failed me in my most desperate hour.
Michelle Gilstrap
My current Keyboard at work looks very similar. Many keys are wiped out.
Dan Stepel
Georges Perec
once wrote an entire novel without the letter E.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
Detlev Artelt
use more speech recognition. It’s much easier to write – or let say, to speak – books
Jason Flaugh
I have found speech recognition in Windows 7 to work rather well, although sometimes it does get “confused.”
Brent Knowles
I have never had any success with speech recognition, even on Windows 7. Maybe about 50% accuracy.
Brent Knowles
Wow.
Laura Sykes
All I know is from the scrabble board – ‘E’ only gets you one point, but there are more of this letter than any other!
Vicki
Missing E!
Lindy
I’m missing a ‘5’ on one of my keyboards. We adapt, don’t we?
Ron Romero
Hi Br*nt, I didn’t s** anything that s**ms out of plac*.
Brent Knowles
Haha!
Brent Knowles
Yes it is a very important letter.
Brent Knowles
Yep, very true.
Emmanuel Gonot
You hav a problm thr Brnt. :)
bewitched in salem
It must have sacrificed the E key just to slow you down a bit and relish your accomplishments……….
I think the real question that needs to be answered is how far did you get before noticing the faulty E key?
chada
Damn *k*y. When you want to typ* an* you g*t an *! Sh**sh!
Brent Knowles
Actually the key still worked it was just sticky. I can type pretty fast and because it was stuck it was slowing me down. So I got angry at it.
Elza van Swieten
wh.r. is th. .?