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Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:50 PM

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Tell us about?one moment when you knew that your writing, teaching, or everyday life was forever changed by the power of the Internet.

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6 Comments

Reply Christina

03:48 PM on November 04, 2010?

I've probably sent hundreds of rejection letters to publishers over the years. When I recently started writing short stories, a new genre for me, I decided to only submit to journals and mags who accepted e-submissions. It freed me! It empowered me! It is oh so fast! And it saves on money and trees. It has also led to two e-book acceptances.

Reply Leslie

05:17 PM on November 03, 2010?

I realized I could find absolutely any book that I wanted!

Reply laura7

10:48 AM on November 03, 2010?

First I must tell you that I am a hybrid of old and new. I was very slow to warm up to the Internet. That said, back in the 90s I had some time to play around on a computer for two consecutive Snow Days (minus students) in the school library, so I tried to come up to speed. In the process, I discovered that I could submit my poetry online to a really cool Irish journal: THE STINGING FLY. So, I figured it all out, slowly typed my submission into the body of an email (no easy task with line breaks, etc.!), and clicked SEND. Long story short: they accepted my work, and I was hooked forever.

Reply Kevin Hodgson

09:35 AM on November 03, 2010?

It was Paul Oh and my Summer Institute in the Western Massachusetts Writing Project that got me hooked as we used blogging for writing and sharing, and I realized the potential for the classroom. And then, I started to dive in to see what other possibilities were emerging. That was seven or eight years ago now.

-Kevin

Reply [email protected]

11:01 PM on November 02, 2010?

The day that I realized I had stopped writing a first draft in longhand & that my fingers started automatically tryping a computer key board when the muse came calling. I never felt an urge to type on a typewriter. hated typing then. Now my fingers run over the keyboard as if they were piano keys, making music. Brenda

Reply Eliot

09:59 PM on November 02, 2010?

When my English classes started being placed in computer labs only, I realized that the Internet and technology would forever change the way I teach writing to students on a daily basis.