Write on IPAD

[loquere]

-I wrote the bulk of a short story on my IPAD, while in bed last night.

-I find it to be a better experience.

-Does any one write stories on there IPAD's? ---OTHER OBSOLETE TABLETS DO NOT COUNT!

 

[3113]

-I wrote the bulk of a short story on my IPAD, while in bed last night.
-I find it to be a better experience.
-Does any one write stories on there IPAD's? ---OTHER OBSOLETE TABLETS DO NOT COUNT!

Using a blue-tooth keyboard (I can't use the "virtual" keyboard provided on the laptop for more than short notes--I'm a touch typist and have to feel the keys), I find an iPad just fine to write on. I know a novelist who uses nothing else, and a Ph.D student who writes all her essays and papers on one. She just loves writing on it. She especially loves turning the essays into PDF's and reading them with iBook. She finds this better for final editing.

I, myself, however, still use a small laptop (I use an 11" Macbook Air): first, I like the snappier keyboard of my laptop as compared to most bluetooth keyboards. Second, the word processing programs for iPad aren't as good...yet! That's for my needs--for others they may be fine. I've no doubt that word processing programs for the iPad and other tablets will come up to snuff very soon--Scrivener is working on one, and I use Scrivener. So I may have to eat my words on point #2 very soon. Third, I like having a lot of windows open when I'm writing to check up on many things. Be it information, prior chapters, prior books, etc. I like how the iPad switches, but the OS doesn't yet provide multiple windows running different programs on the same screen. Again, I suspect this will change very soon, so point #3 may be off the table.

If the iPad surmounts these and I can find a light, snappy keyboard and a cool carrying case to angle the iPad and keyboard just right, I might well switch to writing on my iPad. The iPad does have the advantage of being "vertical" and so offering me a chance to see a full "page" of my writing. And the iPad with a bluetooth keyboard would still be lighter than my laptop. I love to go out to write, so the lighter and more compact the digital writing tool, the better. This includes the fact that the charger for the iPad is also lighter and less bulky. Another plus.

I don't use the iPad for writing yet, but I suspect I will be using it for that pretty soon.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

I've written the bulk of about 10 stories on my iPhone, then do updates and editing on a Surface.

Can't beat a smartphone for portability, and the ease of writing absolutely everywhere!

 

[satisfy]

I use my iPad a bit for writing stories. If I'm really trying to get into it I like to use the bluetooth keyboard, but I've made do with the virtual one. The problem is the auto correct and makes editing more difficult. Trying to figure out not only what I am saying, but what I meant to say when the word shift is major can be a fun little challenge. But as others say it's nice to have something portable and being able to write when otherwise it would be impossible is nice.

 

[3113]

Just to add, I also like that there are now dictation options--at least there are on all Mac devices. Not that they always translate right--in fact, unless you're careful and clear, they'll probably mess up a few words no matter what. But the hands-free option is great when you're on the move--walking or on a bus or just at a very narrow table where typing means bumping elbows--and/or when you wake in the middle of night and want to jot notes down but you're too tired to push up and type. You can stay resting back and just dictate (and hope what you dictated makes sense in the morning ).

 

[sr71plt]

But the hands-free option is great when you're on the move--walking or on a bus or just at a very narrow table where typing means bumping elbows.

Just what I am always looking for: being trapped on a crowded elbow-to-elbow bus with some dame wedged in beside me dictating an erotic story while I'm just trying to get my day's schedule straight in my mind and, of course, the guy on the other side is yelling in his phone about his last trip to his proctologist.

I guess the attraction of this--and the "regard" those people are giving for those around them--is a new generation "thing."

I can't write out loud or in a coffee house with movement around me or with someone else at my elbow even when I'm composing on a computer.

 

[3113]

Just what I am always looking for: being trapped on a crowded elbow-to-elbow bus with some dame wedged in beside me dictating an erotic story while I'm just trying to get my day's schedule straight in my mind and, of course, the guy on the other side is yelling in his phone about his last trip to his proctologist.

Well,honestly, I find it more useful for those 3 am moments when the idea hits, but I can barely turn on the light let alone jot down that brilliant final line that just popped into my head. I'd be less likely to blurt out my erotic novel in the middle of the coffee shop or on the bus...unless it really could not wait. In which case, I hope you end up listening to me, riveted by what I'm saying instead of the guy talking about his trip to the proctologist

 

[sr71plt]

In which case, I hope you end up listening to me, riveted by what I'm saying instead of the guy talking about his trip to the proctologist

It'll be a tough decision. Men and their ass channels, you know.

I'm afraid when an idea hits me in the middle of the night, I'm up and trotting down the hall to my home office. I can't put it off and go back to sleep.

 

[alwayswantedto]

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