Equipment and environment

Abstract

Most of the people I know seem to like buying stationery — there is something attractive about the pads and files in W H Smith’s. This chapter identifies some of the equipment you may want to consider if you are going to write. It will be a short chapter; these days, the basic and most important item of equipment is the computer. If you want to write and you do not have one, buy one. It will change the way you write, once and for all.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope