Carrie has become so long-lasting at this point that it is a widely shared meme. exist That’s ither idea was a little smaller—she is now a novelist who wants to know, not a sex columnist—but typing is equally prominent. However, the elements of her famous laptop binge are even more interesting these days, such as the fact that she uses pages on Google Docs (since the classics, she obviously learned nothing. SATC Season 4’s episode “My Motherboard, My Self,” she lost all her work after the computer crashed), and the fact that she clung to such old technology. But anyway, I’m off topic.
Writing as an exercise has been romantic for a long time. But when we think of classic images of “writing,” we usually don’t think of having a few inches of face on the laptop screen next to the desk or crossing legs in the bed. Instead, we think of Joan Didion surrounded by books next to her typewriter, or Patti Smith’s mess with leather-bound notebooks, or Virginia Woolf’s letter to Vita Sackville-West in her spider-tilting script. But Carrie Bradshaw? Carrie, though fictional, is probably the first and only person to make laptop writing look cool, half glam, and for that I can only thank her (with tired fingers).
When it’s sunny outside, I may never feel chic. Emailed at 5pm, no matter who they were going to, there was no glory. Still, on that Friday night, I was knocking on the keyboard instead of enjoying my social life like a normal person, or when I was stuck on the screen almost all day, as if my laptop was another limb, I couldn’t help thinking (or weirdly) Carrie Bradshaw and not picking up the actual pen for months.
