Write every day - Day 17

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Inspired by current circumstances: Are there any conditions, emotional or otherwise, under which you find it especially challenging to write? Does happiness make your muse go into hibernation? Does stress make you less likely to write?

For me, if I'm struggling with some big, RL issue, I find it harder to focus on the words until the situation, whatever it is, is resolved. Long-term stress isn't an issue, but short-term shocks or sudden disasters make it difficult for me to sit still (I'm a pacer) and write.

Tally:
Welcome
Day 1: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (16/16)
Day 2: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (15/16)
Day 3: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, yantantether, ysilme (14/16)
Day 4: alexcat, alexseanchai, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/16)
Day 5: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 6: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 7: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/16)
Day 8: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (13/16)
Day 9: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, tinx_r, ysilme (15/17)
Day 10: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 11: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 12>: alexcat, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)
Day 13: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, user name="navaan">, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtthesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 14: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 15: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (15/17)
Day 16: alexseanchai, auroracloud, carenejeans, cassini, china_shop, cornerofmadness, falkner, navaan, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, talkingtothesky, ysilme (14/17)

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ysilme here: 1k fic for me, with about 700 words of it written on my phone in the morning - I have a new phone my bluetooth keyboard interacts with much better, and seem to be able to type on it now as quick as on my computer. Yay!

sylvanwitch here: I managed 703 words in between bouts of stress-crying and financial panic. *sighs* (I think everything is ultimately going to work out. I will not be 100% confident of that, however, until the money from the house sale is in the bank.)

Comments

[falkner]

I have been thinking for a long time now to buy myself a bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone, but I never took the plunge. A couple of years ago when I moved into my current apartment I was without Internet access for months, so all my fic was written and posted on my phone, and a keyboard to use with it would have been an absolute heavensent...

As for writing, 200 words/a double drabble written and posted for a challenge.

[sylvanwitch]

Yay for writing and posting! :-)

I don't even have a phone, so the very idea of writing on one seems terribly exotic. *grins*

[ysilme]

Yay for writing and posting! *\O/*
I have four bluetooth keyboards by now, with various advantages and disadvantages. The first was a very inexpensive (about 7€) one a bit difficult to set up (most are set by default to a QWERTY layout, but as I'm used to a QWERTZ layout even when typing English this won't work for me, also because all the umlauts and lots of punctuation marks are missing or in the wrong places) but works really well. It's about 20% smaller than a regular notebook keyboard and very lightweight, and I mostly used this one until I got nr. 4. Nr. 2 was bought after a recommendation by a friend, a sturdy, water-resistant Logitech one where you could put the phone or tablet upside in so you'd have a fake notebook. Sounded awesome also for using it as a passenger, but it's so bulky and heavy that I never wanted to lug it around. I gave it away eventually. Then I found out that using one keyboard with two devices (tabled & phone) often causes connecting/coupling issues, as you need to couple it again if switching devices, and then with some devices need to selet the keyboard layout again. So I got a sleeve for the tablet with an attached, magnetic, keyboard, which also works really well, so I can use the tablet very comfortably for writing, too.
The first one I used with my phone only, but the size is a bit big in my handbag, and as it's got no cover the keys are subject to getting dirty or scratched by other content of my handbag. *coughs* So I got a foldable one, for around 30€, I think. Folded, it's of course bulkier than the other one, but as long as my phone and only a bit wider, and lives happily all the time in my handbag without any issue. It's super comfortable to write on, but I needed ot get used to it first, as the two folding joints at the bottom irritated a bit in the beginning, and the keys of the topmost row are a bit shorter than the others. But after only three writing mornings I'm now typing as fast on it as I do on my regular keyboard, and I'm able to type _really_ fast.
If you want to buy one, make sure it's suited to your device, has the correct keyboard layout, and read as many reviews and reports about it as possible. The latter helped me enormously finding out which ones suited me and which not, as people kindly listed issues they had or had not.
Now if I could use Scrivener on my phone, too, I'd be in writer's haven! *ggg* I used to have a Samsung and now have a Fairphone, so I make do with Jotterpad and Google Drive, where I have the texts I'm working at for reference, and then just copy&paste any new content. It's not ideal, as I like to check back and forth through lots of texts with some writing work, but it's possible to be productive and creative, so I'm happy enough.

[falkner]

Omg, thanks for all the detail, I'm going to keep all of this in mind and start looking around for one to buy myself! I didn't know much about them, but now I know of a few things to look for to find one that best suits my needs!