What gadgets do you usually use to write novels?

[Eldoria]

What gadgets do you usually use to write novels?

 

[Hans.Trondheim]

I'm a person on the move, so I use all of those listed in your poll. Too bad I can only vote for 3, so I won't vote.

Imma list down the advantages of each one, according to my experience, just to add to the discussion.

For smartphone, the advantages are obvious: small, and easy to carry. I can always write chapters whenever I'm travelling, or in the middle of traffic while I'm stuck. Disadvantages, however, are: if you got fat fingers like mine, it's difficult to type without making spelling errors. There's also this problem where you make accidental button press if a Messenger icon pops out (hence, you'll be seen as active). But this problem can be remedied anw...I uninstalled mine.

For tablets, same advantages with smartphone but with an extra feature where you can write like in an actual notebook using a stylus, which is a plus for me because I can shoot out words faster than I can type them. Disadvantages are the same with smartphone, though a bit lesser in severity since tablets can offer bigger and spacier keyboards for fat fingers.

Whenever I do some 'on the go' writing session, I combine the use of those two. Meaning, I use my phone for references while writing on the tablet. If I can't bring the tablet, then I'll just use the phone.

For laptop, same advantages with smartphone use plus lesser consumption of electricity. Philippine electric bills can be absurdly high as we have no nuclear power plants for cheaper energy source, so we rarely use desktops. Disadvantage is, compared to phones and tablets, laptops are bulkier while moving.

For desktop, while I can't write with it on a train, desktops offer more flexibility and functions than on phone. For one, I can listen on Youtube while simultaneously typing...or listen to seminars while doing my edits. Disadvantages are electric bills, and of course, I can't bring it anywhere.

Oh, and yeah, I still consume lots of actual notebooks cause I also write on paper for my drafts.

 

[Terrate]

I like hearing the clicks and feel of my keyboard, which is also why I also have vibrations when typing using my phone.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Smartphone mostly on my free time and office laptop when I am at work.

 

[Supperset]

Smartphone, it's easy and faster to type and doesn't discharge too fast.

 

[JocelynSmith]

I personally like laptops

 

[Deleted member 206441]

Pen and paper usually

But phone if I am half asleep and think of something

 

[harrydouthwaite]

75% of the time I use my desktop PC. The other 20% of the time I use my laptop (such as when I'm traveling. I've left the last 5% for my smartphone, which is usually just for minor edits and jotting down of ideas/sections that come to me before I go to sleep.

 

[A_the_king_of_all]

I mostly use my desktop as it's a pain for me to write on mobile 90% of the time but when I am traveling my phone it is

 

[Agdistis]

While I always carry around a notebook to write down any ideas that come up, I sit down on my PC to write. I find that I get more done if I can block out the rest of the world to focus, which is easier to do in my room than somewhere out in public on my laptop.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Cellphone, laptop, and very rarely paper and pen.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Desktop

 

[AnonUnlimited]

A keyboard.

 

[Puji-Maki]

Smartphone. I type faster using it.

 

[CrimsonGenius]

Laptops. Look at you mooks thinking staring at a small screen with barely a keyboard on a phone. That’s dangerous To squint your eyes for too long and bad for your neck.

 

[Deleted member 166465]

Stone and chisel... I am old school.

 

[Kara_dija]

I didn't get a laptop until very late in my writing journey, so i just wasn't comfortable switching to smth new, from my good old phone.
But now that I'm used to laptops, i use 'em for proper editing, and I'm in the zone. But when I'm lazy or I wanna do quick fixes, I use my phone

 

[DaelyxLenAuphydas]

Exclusively laptop. I do not understand people who use phones for things like this. Or anything actually. I absolutely loathe using phones and never use them if I can help it. I will write on the desktop sometimes but since I stopped using google docs I've had to pretty much stick to my laptop.

 

[Deleted member 166465]

A keyboard.

... that is a good one. That is good.

 

[Roney]

99.9% Laptop. Sometimes, when I think I haven't written for too long due to not being able to access my laptop, I will just use my phone to write down a few lines to make myself feel better.