The day of the typewriter

I wonder if today’s college students appreciate the wonder of word processing.

When I was in college, I had a script writing class. The objective of the class was to write an original screenplay. Writing an original script was only part of the equation, it also meant the work had to be typed, all corrections made. In those days, re-writes meant retyping the entire page/pages. Only three or four students from the class completed the assignment. I was one of them.

Once, I was approached by another student in our apartment complex. He asked if he could hire me to do some typing. Apparently he had heard all that insistent typing coming from our apartment, and assumed it was my part time job.

I imagine more students are completing that class these days. After all, with word processing, you can focus on the creativity, not on the re-typing.