Thinking better without apostrophes

When putting my thoughts down I never incorrectly use homonyms that don't contain apostrophes ("witch" and "which") but I will often use the word when it saves me an apostrophe ("it's" and "its").

When there's some flow to writing I feel like there is a type of split-thinking occurring: one part for the current sentence and the other for the following ones. The current sentence has been completed- it must only be maintained in memory while the fingers catch up. The following ones are where the thinking is going on- the choices of word and flow.

I want this first part of the brain, this secretary, to get the words out and leave me in peace. But but every sentence there he is sticking his head in the door with and bothering me. I bark at him to leave and he goes back and does the most awful job he can.

It is easier for me to write it wrong and then go back through when I hit some lull. It costs more time to do it this way but it that works. The reasons for the problem and this solution are deeply embedded in the process- that I'm tapping a keyboard and using a word processor.

The difference between typing and writing with a pen or pencil is that it is much less brain intensive. After a certain point we are all endlessly experienced with making the curves of letters but it continues to be something we have to do. Typing isn't like that. I have no memory of typing "continues" two sentences ago. It didn't feel different from "endlessly" or "curves". It didn't feel like anything. I thought the words and they appeared. (In this way typing is closer to speaking).

The level of this menial work has been flattened, or nearly. When we get close to the ground level we see that the apostrophes (and the capitalizations) don't quite work the way they should. They require effort. When I get to typing "you're" there's an instant where I'm back at the fingers to avoid "your'e" or "yoUre".

There are two reasons I find all of this interesting: learning about how people think, learning about how people think differently, and how thinking on this may affect technology.
The minutiae of how people think is rarely discussed. We know our friends opinions but not how they got there and that seems to be an exciting bit. I've never heard someone say how they get their words on the page.