Writing experiences

I could never imagine being 22 years old, deaf, blind, and writing a book. It would take forever just to wrote a sentence, never mind an entire book. In our day and age, we can type something up in the blink of an eye, edit and re-edit it in 10 minutes, and have a final copy 40 minutes later. I don't know how such a young girl with so many life challenges could spend (what I imagine would be) a very long time writing a book.

Personally, I like writing by hand when I have to write notes, but I really cant imagine writing any of my papers out by hand. That kind of stuff needs to be done on my laptop for numerous reasons, such as: ease in editing, time that is takes to write out a huge paper, and automatic corrections (spell and grammar check). To write out or type up (on a type writer) an entire book sounds outrageous in todays way of life.

The only similarity that I see is: in the time period that Helen Keller wrote "Story of my Life", the most advanced form of technology was a typewriter. The most advanced technology that we have are computers. It's not like Helen just decided that she was going to make life difficult for herself and not use a computer. She used the only technology she had available then.

There are many differences in writing in Helens time period and in our time period. They also include the level of acceptance of certain topics such as sex or personal love lives. These are newly acceptable topics to publish.