You Can Pretty Much Write Anywhere by Mandy Rosko

   Something occurred to me the other day, and this might have a lot to do with the fact that I’m now house sitting for my brother, away from my desktop computer with a good portion of my files saved on it.

   We as writers can do our jobs pretty much anywhere now. I really mean that. When I come to house sit and watch my brother’s dogs, I only bring my iPad and a Bluetooth keyboard. I’ve written so many novellas on that thing that it’s kind of ridiculous. At first I was using the iPad 2 with the pages app, but then, as the thing started to crash more and more, I upgraded to the iPad mini, and for me, the screen on that thing isn’t too small to work on. I can send my emails on it, contact my editor and hand in edits. I’m never away from work when I have the thing.

   This isn’t a commercial for an apple product, because the same is virtually true with my phone, and that thing’s an Android. While I’ve never tried to edit a document on the thing, I can still answer emails, send out tweets, and more than once, I’ve gotten work done on it by actually writing. I got an app on the Android store for writing. There’ve been times when I felt stressed enough about work, that I’ve had to get a thousand or so words written like that. When I’m away from my computer and forgot my iPad somewhere, it’s the only way I can get any work done. Anyone looking at me would think that I was just focusing really hard on a bunch of texts. Little did they know I was actually working on the thing.

   I’m curious about whether anyone else has been forced to do this. Whether it was because they were under the wire, or just felt the inspiration pop up and had to get their thoughts down now. I have to admit that since my handwriting isn’t so great I do tend to get my work done on my phone app whenever any other option is closed to me, especially since I can copy and paste my work into an email to myself, and then paste it into my work document when I do make it back to my computer or iPad. I’ve only handwritten a couple of short stories before in my life, if that, and the big difference is that anything hand written needs to by types again.

   Although, to be fair, the upside to that is that you can think of details to add in that slipped by the first time.

   What do you think and what do you prefer? I think it’s very interesting that I can work literally from anywhere, and even do some of that work in a place without Internet, like the actual writing itself. This has to be insanely useful to the people who do Nanowrimo, which is just around the corner, and might even explain why some of the people there get word counts so high it’s insane.

Anyway, that’s all for my commentary until next week,

Cheers :)

~Mandy Rosko

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