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I thought about trying to pass this off as a review of keyboards with a view to finding the best one to write on.

That’s totally not it. Instead, I’m going to complain. My backspace key on this laptop I do the bulk of my writing on is not functioning correctly. As in, I’m having to hit it five times to delete two characters.

It makes me incredibly frustrated.  I usually edit while I write. If I make an obvious error, I like to fix it right then so that I can’t miss it later. (Full disclosure: my crack editorial team (sans editorial assistant to bring coffee) gets me corrections on this blog on an almost-daily basis–after I’ve already posted!) So, of course, when I can’t do that, it drives me crazy. It’s just not fun.

The scariest part? I think there’s a natural conclusion to draw from the fact that my backspace key is dying: clearly, the key I use most? The one that dies first. In this case, the backspace key. That’s right, I correct myself more often than I do anything else.

But maybe, as an attempted writer, that’s for the best.