I see you took a little hiatus of your own, although probably too little. You write really well, @owasco, the way you narrated everything here was so damn effective and poignant.
I can relate with the post too, it's the predicament of the modern era with all these phones and gadgets. Hehe. One thing about my own experience that you didn't mention here but I'll like to bring up is this: when I spend time away from my gadgets and fill up time with more natural stuff, I sometimes pick up a pen to write and realize how weird it feels. I also realize how unworkable it proves to be. Lol. You write and want to delete some part of what you've written in order to write it differently but there's no way to highlight the whole thing and delete it all at once because it's a pen and paper not a keyboard.
You want to go all the way back to the beginning and add a few touches, but how can you without canceling, tearing off sheets, making a whole mess and realizing you have to write everything all over again. 🤣🤣🤣
I know the struggle! When I first started writing poetry, it was by hand. Poetry is different from prose though. I tend to work and rework poems for weeks, and there aren't a lot of words in them, so it's easier to write those by hand than it is to write prose. I love how easy word processing made editing my prose. I can produce something that is perfect, or I try to. Thanks for your comment and support! It's nice to have you back.
Yeah, editing poetry by hand is way more workable than prose.
By the way, I've tried my hand at poetry, would you like to see something I've made? The type of poetry I was interested in making are the funny, nonsensical and sex-related ones. Lol.
If you want to check 'em out, here are two:
Mary Goes Round
Much Ado About Nutting