If you’re anything like me, you are terrified of your computer. There it is, sitting by the window on your kitchen table. It’s lookin’ all innocent, sayin’, “Hey. Hey man. Come get some writing done.” And you tell yourself, “I’m going to face my fear of this talking computer, sit down, and write.”

But then once you get there, your hands start shaking and your legs start jimmying. You open up every other possible application on your dock, go to web sites you’d never normally go to, check the weather for the next three years, and finally get sucked into a game of Web Boggle.

Why does this happen? Well, let me just let the non-writers who stop by in on a little secret: Writing is…SO. MUCH. WORK. All right, that’s exaggerating a little bit. But usually, it’s not what you would call “fun.” In my limited experience, the only people I’ve met who “enjoy” writing are those drafting personal essays, because, well, they’re writing about themselves. (Can you even begin to grasp the irony of a blogger making such a statement?)

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