NOVEL NEXT Between the Pages - Update #2
When I began writing the Cor Series, I had dreams of one day becoming a full-time writer. Years later, my dreams have come true, in a manner of speaking, for I write on my keyboard at least 8 hours each day. I am writing full-time, it just happens to be documents, grant applications and reports for my day job.
I type so much that I continually wear the letters off my computer keys. I have no need to look at the keys as I type, but the F and J keys, the "home position" keys are always the first to go. Those two keys have little bumps on them, so you know when your fingers are in the correct position. When those bumps wear off, it's difficult to find the home position without looking and you type much slower and with more errors.
As you can tell by the picture, I am right-handed. My right thumb wears a spot on the spacebar between every world. My left thumb, on the other hand (pun intended) is the only one of my 10 digits that does absolutely nothing, it just hangs out lazily in mid-air. I guess this is only fair, for the left hand is responsible for 15 letters while the right has only 11, plus the space bar.
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Theoretically, the next keys to wear out should be the vowels, as they are our most used letters. E is the most popular letter in the English language, yet mine has never worn out. Instead, I always wear out A, S, D, and F, that middle line where my four left fingers wait for their next assignment while the lazy left thumb looks on.
To figure out the mystery, I took a video of my typing style and discovered that my right-hand spacebar thumb is at fault, for when my right thumb goes to the spacebar, my left hand seeks a place to rest briefly from handling those 15 letters. The continual touching down for a break during every space bar tap is what wears out the A, S, D, and F keys before E is even burnished smooth.
My keyboard shows that I am a full-time writer by day and a novelist by night. I can only fit in an hour or so every morning writing my novels and articles such as this one. I hope that helps to put into perspective the many years it has taken me to get the Cor Series online.
I do hope you will appreciate all the work my fingers have accomplished - except, of course, for my lazy left thumb.