Surfing on a MacBook Air

Just because I needed to escape the bizarro freak show that is my life, after I spent a mindless hour or so watching reruns of the original Twilight Zone, I topped that off by surfing the net. You are about to reap the benefits of that search. Don't worry. I kept it writing related so no need to hide the children's eyes or plug their ears. You don't even have to put away the cat.

I wanted to see what would come up first for certain writerly words, specifically involving the word write. Here goes...

The first site for the word WRITE is, naturally, the definition. Who gets the bragging rights for that? Merriam-Webster of course.

Next up I tried my luck with the word WRITER. Wikipedia headed the list, but we've all been there, done that. So I'm going with the second site on the page, which is Writer: the internet typewriter. It looks like some kind of freebie word processing program thingamabob. Personally, I use Word.

WRITING was my next word. Wikipedia trounced the competition, once again. We'll go with entry numero dos, which is Writing.Com It's an online community for writers of all interests and skill levels. Looks like there's lots to do there, so you might want to check it out.

And lest we forget past tense, I gave WROTE a whirl. This time I did go with the Wikipedia entry. It's all about John Fogerty's 10th album "Wrote a Song For Everyone." I didn't know any of the songs. Actually, I'm not even sure who John Fogerty is.

Last but not least, I googled WHY WRITE? The first entry was from the British Library. It's a very short history of marks and symbols used for writing.

This was an interesting exercise, but not nearly as fun as pinning on Pinterest. Hmm. Maybe next time I could combine the two and do a search for words involving pin.