Paperbackwriter commented at Shannon’s yesterday on writers blogging about TV, and it made me wonder: am I the only one who doesn’t watch TV?

I don’t. We have a TV. The kids use it to watch episodes of Backyardigans, Veggie Tales, Little Einsteins and Leapfrog DVDs (I highly recommend Leapfrog’s Letter Factory, Word Factory and Storybook Factory for helping little readers learn to read). We use it to do our 12 Second Sequence workouts twice a week, which are on DVD.

In other words, the TV is a DVD player. We don’t watch channels. I don’t think we even get reception. We haven’t watched TV as TV for years. We don’t miss it.

We do buy episodes of shows we’re interested in; Monk, Firefly, Bleach. But mostly, the TV is for kid entertainment and education. If I have free time, I’d rather read a book than watch TV. I always have. In fact, in a high school creative writing class I was totally lost when assigned to write a script for one of 2 or 3 popular TV shows…none of which I’d ever seen. (I could have written a Star Trek script, but that wasn’t on the list.)

So, I’m a writer and I don’t watch TV. I really can’t be the only one, can I?