A Blog Post: Phone Writing
May. 26th, 2019 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprigI am starting this blog post on my phone.
I've been doing a lot more of that in the last year — a phone is less of a pain in the ass to pull out on a short bus ride (10 minutes, one end of campus to the other) than a tablet-with-keyboard. It's easier if I have two or three minutes standing in line. It makes writing at stoplights a possibility, and it's a lot easier to be surreptitious about writing on a phone in a meeting than it is with a tablet or laptop.
It's also slow compared to writing on a keyboard, even as I get better at it, and it's interesting, because I compose my thoughts as I type, so composing to a slower typing speed has taken more adjustment than the tiny keyboard.
read on…
I've been doing a lot more of that in the last year — a phone is less of a pain in the ass to pull out on a short bus ride (10 minutes, one end of campus to the other) than a tablet-with-keyboard. It's easier if I have two or three minutes standing in line. It makes writing at stoplights a possibility, and it's a lot easier to be surreptitious about writing on a phone in a meeting than it is with a tablet or laptop.
It's also slow compared to writing on a keyboard, even as I get better at it, and it's interesting, because I compose my thoughts as I type, so composing to a slower typing speed has taken more adjustment than the tiny keyboard.
read on…
