Upon reflection I have spent a considerable amount of my time putting pen to paper or more to the point typing up my words, be it the dreaded Monthly Reports, Management Procedures, Project documents. Hell, I even found time to write six Novels. Then the many notes and copying document while researching family genealogy. I managed to traced a male ancestor back to 1579 and checking the family name and its spelling variants an earlier ancestor who possibly fought at Agincourt.
So yes, writing, typing I’ve done a lot and all of this after a shaky start. My early years at school I had problems with spelling and pronunciation, I seemingly missed out on phonetics. Later spelling rules like ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ’c’, well for some reason my brain had this idiosyncratic urge to rearrange letters and also number sequentially. At the time they put it politely by suggesting I was a slow learner and being conscious of this disfunction made me very wary about pursuing any academic achievements. I was in my twenties when it was pointed out my struggles were related to being somewhat dyslexic.
In the end I didn’t let it hold me back and today I’m more adept. Back in the nineteen eighties I worked with Text editors and Word processor on an IBM PC. At Home I had my QL, QUILL and then TEXY87 with the added Bonus of SPELLBOUND all seemingly very advanced for the time and available at a reasonable price. The quality of my documentation rapidly improved and looking back boosted my confidence in tackling a host of new opportunities. Presentation became my forte. The FORUM’s generous comments on my Screen Layouts and accompanying Prog pdf documantation in part I guess links back to those early beginning.
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