# Look at Your Fish > A Writing Life ## Posts - [A start](https://lookatyourfish.com/blog/2025-10-27/a-start/): Coming to you live from the couch in my living room, I am writing this on my new AlphaSmart Neo2 typewriter/writer deck/keyboard/whatever it calls itself. I bought it in an attempt to build a writing environment that is less distracting than typing on a laptop. While everything will ultimately find its way onto my laptop before I can post or share, the laptop be both a distraction (internet, all my other apps and files) and a turn-off (it’s the same place to I do my work, which is also writing, plus I generally dislike looking at laptop screens). This device,... Read More ## Pages - [The Newsletter](https://lookatyourfish.com/newsletter/): This blog started as a newsletter, which I send 1-2 times per month. I’m still deciding on the best way to meld or differentiate this blog and that newsletter. For now, you can subscribe to my newsletter for a sort of Greatest Hits of Look at Your Fish. I also share a song at the end of each post, though no one listens to them and you don’t have to either. Enter your email Let me read it first. - [The Author](https://lookatyourfish.com/about/): I’m Derek, an editor, data journalist, product marketer, or whatever title gets me jobs. What you care about is that I’m attempting to become a full-time novelist. This blog is partially a chance to reflect on my writing life and partially a chance to learn how to code my own Geocities-style website. If you want to know more about me, try my personal website. - [Privacy Policy](https://lookatyourfish.com/privacy-policy/): Who we are Our website address is: https://lookatyourfish.com. This site is managed through WordPress.org. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.... Read More [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)