I can’t even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it’s really just a matter of time.
It probably happens already with some web-serials
Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/table with a touch keyboard.
Submitted 3 months ago by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Nighed@feddit.uk 3 months ago
fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
How about on a phone via messaging: www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/…/10768688
Boochani wrote his entire book on his mobile phone and sent it in bits and pieces over years to translator Omid Tofighian via Whatsapp.
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 months ago
I’m seeing teenagers writing reports on the smartphone while sitting in front of a full computer keyboard… They say it’s faster…
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I wonder how they do formating. Could see it being faster if you are a scan and peck typer and only writing notes though.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I wrote a book of short horror stories mostly on my phone in snippets, just using a notes app. Only the final edit was on a laptop.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
You have more patience than I will ever have…
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I was just utilising spare minutes here and there.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There are LN writers who switch between their phone and their laptops.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
Japanese light novel writers in assuming? And why? To continue working on the go when needed?
lastweakness@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, that and sometimes to just write while laying down.
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My entire comment history here, and the last 10 years or so on Reddit have been exclusively from a phone. Weeks go by that I don’t touch an actual Mac or PC anymore.
c0ber@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
this has the same energy as boomer posts about millennials someday joining the workforce
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Why? I’m not talking about age. I’m talking about typing speed.
c0ber@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
i mean in terms of you talking about something that’s obviously already happening as though it’s impending
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Most of the short stories or ideas I have written down in the last 10 or so years have been on my phone; nothing published, though. I can type faster with my thumbs now than I can using a regular keyboard since I am so out of practice using a keyboard to type. Used to average 120WPM.
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They will probably write prompts
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
The book The Elasticity of Every living thing by Kathereen May, fits those criteria
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Oh wow! That is an incredibly inspiring story!