Time It Takes...

I look at some people's ASCII art, and they do these AMAZING pieces of art,
and they do so many, sometimes I ask myself: "How long does it take you to
create one?" It takes me a LONG time to make a SIMPLE one. Now, I know I'm
not good, because I'm somewhat new to this thing, but is there a secret
program? I tried a converter, but when I tried it, it turned out as NOTHING,
even when I squinted and turned my moniter down REALLY far. Then I try to
create a picture in GIF of my own, and the darned thing froze on me! I had to
restart my computer. Is there any Window$ program out there?

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"Admiral",

    Your pix are just fine. Continue making them. Don't worry about
how long it takes others to make theirs. You will get faster as time
goes by; it doesn't take a lot of practice.

    I have never gotten any use out of any of those conversion programs.
They are a waste of time, as far as I am concerned. Others may give you
other advice; you can take whatever works for you. I know some folks do
some neat tricks, like using Paintshop, and just editing in text over a
real .jpg or .bmp picher and then just saving the text. Neat idea, but I
can't do it worth a hoot.

    I just use notepad, the most basic of text editors for Windows. I have
tried Textpad, but I didn't like it much, myself. I'm too lazy to learn a
better 'pad' though. I could use some of my fancy word processors, but I
don't bother. You use whatever works for you.

            Good luck and don't catch cybersyphilis,
                           JRO