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Originally Posted by rcentros
Something like Freedom wouldn't work for me on a device capable of getting online, because, when I'm writing on a computer I'm in the habit of doing research as I go — even looking up the meaning of a word can send me on a three hour "journey." I used to look up a words in my dad's 1913 Webster's Unabridged (India paper) dictionary and would still be leafing through it hours later — one definition leads to more definitions and then the origin of the word and "Oh, I didn't know that... what about...?"
That said, I would never be able to justify spending the kind of money it takes to buy a FreeWrite, especially since an Alphasmart Neo does the job AND allows you to edit that typo three lines up.
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Ha! I know that feel. I joke about being on Wikipedia and starting on "Emperors of Japan" only to look up four hours later from "History of Cufflinks" with a confused expression and no memory of how I got there.
All kidding aside, though, writing is a unique and individual process. Every person approaches it differently and has different requirements. My editor has to outline and write everything by hand on a clipboard like some kind of damn animal. Me, I wrote two non-fiction books entirely in MS Word, then switched to Evernote to write my first novel, and then switched to Scrivener for my follow on. You gotta do what works for you and if that means you buy a $500 e-ink typewriter, by all means don't let
me talk you out of that.
Oh, and I'm the same way about researching as I go. I write martial arts fiction with a contemporary combat/military flavor, so if I'm discussing that a character is carrying a modern sniper rifle, I should probably know
the basics about it.