Random question: does anyone have experience of using 'paper-like' screen protectors on tablets to make the writing experience feel more like, well, paper?
I found an old post talking about the various digital writing options including the reMarkable devices (too expensive for me) then remembered you could get paper-like screen protectors.
I've found some on Amazon but would appreciate any real-life experience anyone has.
Further to yesterday's post, more people have been extolling the virtues of blogging and how it is a means to connection.
Kev says:
I've been lucky enough to make a number of friends off the back of this blog ... the interactions that come off the back of this blog are generally far deeper than those from social networks ... It's a deeper, more interesting connection
Writing about returning to therapy, Eve remarks:
Maybe it's just that people looking for a connection tend to reach for that connection in similar ways, and so we all turn to blogging ... a place to trip into a connection with another person's thoughts and fears and hopes
Responding to my post, Tracy states:
I find it easier to express myself in writing than in person so it makes sense I'd be drawn to blogging
Bix ventured recently:
It's true that blogging never died but it certainly seems just as true that over the past five years or so there's been something of a renaissance that feels different. One that feels as if it's setting down roots for the first time in a long time, beyond the usual suspects.
He mentions the past five years but, to me, it feels like there has been a rapid acceleration this year alone, as though those roots have well and truly taken and things are growing apace. More people are finding each other through blogging than have done in a long time.
The curiosity and pull to find others seems stronger than it has been in years.
@colinwalker I'm friends in IRL with several people that I met in my (or their) blog comments back in peak blog before Facebook blew up. I'm friends with people I met on Twitter pre-2012 before it started down the enshittification path. I never stopped blogging, but it does feel like this is the first year in a long while that blogging is gaining momentum.
Absolutely, it feels like there has been a definite shift.
