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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Adderbox76@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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.

edited: Missed a "T" in the title.

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[-] FundMECFSResearch 57 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Severe ME/CFS: A Guide to Living was written entirely on phone by Emily Collenridge, someone who suffered from very severe ME/CFS (one of the illnesses with lowest Quality of Life) and could only use her phone for brief moments. Over years, writing a tiny bit each moment she was able to use her phone, she wrote her book which was published.

This book is really invaluable to the patient community as it is one of the only ones we have, since most people with that level of illness aren’t able to communicate at all.

Sadly she died in hospital a couple years later, in her early 30s.

Here is a wiki page if anyone is interested https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Emily_Collingridge

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 months ago

Oh wow! That is an incredibly inspiring story!

[-] Nighed@feddit.uk 13 points 6 months ago

It probably happens already with some web-serials

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

How about on a phone via messaging: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/behrouz-boochani-wins-australias-richest-literary-prize/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 9 points 6 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 2 points 6 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 6 points 6 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 5 points 6 months ago

You have more patience than I will ever have...

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 points 6 months ago

I was just utilising spare minutes here and there.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

You have less patience than OP will ever have*

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

There are LN writers who switch between their phone and their laptops.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

Japanese light novel writers in assuming? And why? To continue working on the go when needed?

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yes, that and sometimes to just write while laying down.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 months ago

Ah okay, but they last one seems possible with a laptop

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 6 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.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

They will probably write prompts

[-] c0ber@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

this has similar energy to boomer posts about millennials someday joining the workforce

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Why? I'm not talking about age. I'm talking about typing speed.

[-] c0ber@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

i mean in terms of you talking about something that's obviously already happening as though it's impending

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