I am finding a hint of joy in blogging on the phone. Maybe it represents a basic change — a helpful one— in understanding how to access the writersphere. It took me a while to give up the notebooks and now I rely on laptops for writing. I do my work through offline docs that are inherently tied to the computer as if it were my digital notebook. Today at writer’s group (every writer needs to get one of these together. Seriously) we talked about writing in the cloud so that the writing could be continued anywhere as opposed to confined to the laptop and the higher likelihood of losing my stuff there (as I worry I already have) vs. the cloud and its benefits.
Drawbacks exist to the cloud as with any platform, but what makes me interested is the idea of always being a click away from my active doc. I can talk into a doc as I am driving down the road vs. trying to send myself an email with notes to eventually possibly be transferred to a doc or text myself and forget the text in a sea of messages from every automated response known to billing, electric, and otherwise.
Its not really a solution. The solution is to think like a writer first. It’s a shortcut. I’m not mad about those.