C is for Computer

Welcome back to The Author’s Alphabet. You can read earlier posts here. Each week, I’ll be posting another letter of the alphabet, selecting a word that starts with that letter, and sharing my view of what that word means to me, as an author. Then, the fun begins — you get to comment, question, poke, prod, and otherwise get involved with the discussion.

C is for computer.

Years ago, I attended a class at the Smithsonian — Historical Novels and the Authors who Wrote Them. For eight weeks, I got...