I put my palm pilot and keyboard to good use today and went over to Border’s to write for a bit.\u00a0\u00a0 Got nearly 2,000 words done, too!\u00a0 Not bad for a morning’s work.<\/p>\n
I don’t really like lugging my computer around, but find that writing on something that folds up to fit in my purse is really, really nice!<\/p>\n
I have the added bonus of not being connected to the ‘net on it, so I am not tempted to do any web surfing or stuff like that.<\/p>\n
I was wondering if the people around would be too much of a distraction from actually writing, but it turned out not to be so.\u00a0 In fact, the people watching was considerably less of a temptation to let my mind go off task than using a computer connected to the ‘net is!\u00a0 I did chat briefly with some people who were fascinated by the Palm and the little keyboard, but it wasn’t enough to throw me off my groove.<\/p>\n
I’m using Quickoffice on my Palm, which syncs okay with my word processor.\u00a0 Formatting isn’t ideal, but I’m writing a novel and in a novel formatting isn’t fancier than anything you’re likely to be able to do on a typewriter, anyway.\u00a0\u00a0 I really wish I’d had something like this as a teenager.\u00a0 It would have kept me out of the basement when my hands cramped up too much from writing longhand out in the woods.\u00a0 There was a rock and a log that would have made the perfect desk!\u00a0 A laptop isn’t really someone you’re okay with taking out into the woods with you, but this?\u00a0 Perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I put my palm pilot and keyboard to good use today and went over to Border’s to write for a bit.\u00a0\u00a0 Got nearly 2,000 words done, too!\u00a0 Not bad for a morning’s work. I don’t really like lugging my computer around, but find that writing on something that folds up to fit in my purse … <\/p>\n