Are you using the wrong keyboard?

Plus, a look at the keyboard you really should be using!

I stared at my keyboard in a daze.

It was one of those days as a newsletter writer where you start to panic. Nothing flows from your fingers as you tell your brain to write something interesting.

The blank white page is a scary proposition for any writer. Devoid of ideas, I tend to abandon the session and go for a walk. Within 5-10 mins of de-stressing in nature an idea usually starts to grow. Your subliminal mind starts to work the idea to the point where you arrive back at your front door with something to at least make a start with.

Over the last couple of years of writing this newsletter I know the ideas will come and so the stress subsides pretty quickly now. I know I can combine a few ideas and get them out. I know I wont let you down.

Today was different.

Today, I glanced down and wondered about the strange array of letters in front of me. I needed to explore the tool that we all use so often on a daily basis. For those of us who write straight to a computer it’s the tool where ou…