Express yourself.
Make a diary to record your life experiences.
Write a poem or one hundred poems.
Compose a letter for someone you've never met.
Describe things you see, or imagine.
Create your own world or how you'd like our world to be.
Name your writing.
The "Activity" tab lets you name whatever you write.
If you don't name something, it will be called "Write Activity" in the Journal list.
You can write many diary entries, letters, poems or other documents. All of their names will
show up in the Journal.
A name can summarize or describe what you have written. A name can be made of words or
numbers.
In a diary, you might make today's date the name of today's writing.
If you are writing a letter, you might name it "letter to..." plus the name of the person you
are writing to, and maybe the subject of the letter. Example: "to Walter about magical little
green computer."
Poems might be named with their first word or two, or you could give them titles.
Creating your own world? Give its places and people their own names.
Explore advanced features.
The "Text" tab allows you to change font styles and colors
Keyboard shortcuts are faster than using the menus -- ctrl-x is cut, ctrl-c is copy, ctrl-v is paste.
There are many more.
The laptop's cut-and-paste works between activities -- text you copy while using the Browse
activity can be pasted into a Write activity page.
The "Tables" tab allows you to divide a page into boxes -- a two-box (1x1) table divides the
page into two columns; a 7x5 table could be used for a month-long calendar.
Try this: Use a table to practice typing or writing... Make a 1x1 table. Using the Browse
activity and the ctrl-c (copy) and ctrl-v (paste) keys, paste some practice text into the left
box -- maybe a news story or a poem you like. Click in the other box, then practice typing
a copy of the the text you pasted. While you type, notice how the original author formed
words, phrases and sentences.
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