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Sometimes, I will jot down a concept on my iPad for a story, and other times, it will be dialog and scenes flowing out on the darned virtual keyboard; still others, the flow will wait for the decent, solid keyboard of my laptop.
Does anyone else occasionally find themselves inspired and producing paragraph after paragraph, despite a frustrating screen keyboard? Or does your muse decently wait until you’ve gotten your morning pastry and cracked open your laptop, and it’s decent keyboard?
Making notes for a story
I have a file on GoogleDocs called StoryNotes. If I'm away from my big machine, I can open this on laptop, tablet, or phone and make notes. If the keyboard is inadequate or inavailable, I can use the voice typer. It may be messy but I can get the idea down.
Later, at my desk, I can open StoryNotes and move the info into some other file or writing app.
It's not as smooth as I'd like it to be but it does work.
Hugs,
Erin
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It just seems I'm like "No, I
It just seems I'm like "No, I'd never do anything serious on that screen keyboard without tactile feedback", until I find I've done so.
Yeah, my story notes live on iCloud. I find voice technology intrusive, so I tend not to try that way. I just spent a day taking a census of ideas I'd jotted down or gotten a start on. While trying to examine all the concepts, two or three started me thinking; two new ideas occurred while I was doing it, and I was severely tempted to flesh out about three of them instead of finishing my census... So Just because I have a backlog from 2014 doesn't mean I don't still get new ideas...
I've tried
and failed over the years with various PC programs, mini cassette recorders etc. But always end up with a note pad, pen, and the old noggin. I'm just a dinosaur when it comes to this sort of thing. On writing programs, the best I ever had was the old Amstrad PCW. It had a better word processor than any of the PC word processor programs at the time. Now days I just stick with Word.