I use computers for prose, pen and ink for poetry.
I remember that when I was first writing sonnets after years of only working in free verse I was shocked to discover that the form had the power to impose its world view on my thoughts. It was the first experience I'd had with the medium determining, or at least influencing, the message. I'm having that sensation again very strongly as I grope around for what material to include on this site, and find the site building tools have their own ideas. Not bad ideas, necessarily, but decided ones.
I remember that when I was first writing sonnets after years of only working in free verse I was shocked to discover that the form had the power to impose its world view on my thoughts. It was the first experience I'd had with the medium determining, or at least influencing, the message. I'm having that sensation again very strongly as I grope around for what material to include on this site, and find the site building tools have their own ideas. Not bad ideas, necessarily, but decided ones.