Thursday, February 8, 2007

Frustrations/Challenges

I haven't posted in over a week. There's been something wrong with our computer and it's been hard for me to get online without the computer being extremely s-l-o-w or freezing up. Ian's been working on it, trying to fix whatever the problem is, and I guess whatever he's been doing has worked - tonight is the first time I've been able to be online without any problems so far.
Because I'm not computer-savvy, I can get very annoyed and frustrated whenever there's some kind of problem. I only know how to do basic stuff - go online, send and receive e-mails, and use a word processing program. That's about it. As long as it's all going well, I'm fine. But I admit I don't have much patience whenever I encounter something I don't know how to do, or whenever there's a problem with the computer that I don't understand.
The current problem seems to have started when we installed the new Dragon Naturally Speaking program. It's possible that this computer doesn't have enough memory to run the program along with everything else, so we might have to get more memory. Ian has installed more memory in the past, and it has made the computer run faster and better, so more memory might be the solution.
Right now, I'm reluctant to start using the Dragon program, because I'm not sure if or how it will affect the computer. I'm afraid the computer could crash, and it could be a costly hassle to repair it. I've still been writing, in my morning pages journal, my writing prompt notebook, and my notebook for my current project, What Luck. But I haven't been writing as often as I want to, and I know that I could write better and faster by learning to use the Dragon program and becoming adept at it. I know I should just try it, and see what happens. If the computer goes down, hopefully Ian will be able to fix it. I wouldn't be writing anything important with the program while I'm learning how to use it anyway. So I've just got to try it.
I need to see these frustrations as challenges instead, and not let them get to me, or get in the way of my writing. I know that every writer has frustrations and challenges to face. And I know that overcoming them will make me a better writer, and will make my accomplishments seem even greater.
So this is just a minor hurdle, that I will get over, on my way to the finish line.
(And I've finished this post with no computer problems - yay!)

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