Well today its the authors keyboard. However, and just imagine the days of a author using a pen to write a manuscript or quite possibly one of those old time typewriters. Whoa! Just imagine writing a manuscript all in ink. Now that's a major project. I'll bet publishers just loved that.
As a author, sometime the ink in my pen seems to dry up and I find myself searching for content and story lines. Maybe you too. When I hit those days and sometimes weeks, I take the time to visit some other online sites / blogs and enjoy the reads of others.
So if your finding writers cramps cramping the flow of your pen. Take a break and take in some great reading. Pick a interesting subject and perform a online word search and simply take in all the great writings.
