Extended Apathy

[andrewducker]

You may have noticed a slowdown in comments recently. This is partially due to the fact that I've been spending less time in front of the computer, and partially because I've been moire tired. I tend to have ideas during the day, and then by the time I get home, (a) I'm too tired to focus properly and (b) my enthusiasm for my idea has gone.

My enthusiasm tends to be like that. I'll have a fantastic idea, pour everything into it, explore it, and then get bored of it. The problem is that if it's an idea for a journal entry, I really need to be near a computer for stages 1 and 2 of the process, or I hit stage 3 and nothing gets said.

What I need is a laptop with a mobile-phone-based connection, so that I can dial-up from the train on the way home and post from there.

Comments

text editor

[am0k.livejournal.com]

Have you considered writing entries with a text editor and then just cutting and pasting to the LJ "Message:" section? I often do that when I write a time lapsed entry that spans the day.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. a solution presents itself:

On the train home (where you seem to want to be able to post from) use a pen to write down your entry on a piece of paper.. (you remember pen and paper, they were popular last century).. then when you get home, it's a simple matter to transfer your entry from the almost-obsolete hardcopy to a computer..

[broin.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought that.

doesn't work

[andrewducker]

I really have problems writing and thinking at the same time. When typing, words just flow, when writing, I have to actually concentrate; and concentrate quite hard if I want to be able to read it more than 10 minutes later. I've discovered that anything more than very simple notes is just now worth writing down by pen.

Re: doesn't work

[broin.livejournal.com]

Make *notes*.

Notes

[andrewducker]

Notes aren't the tricky bits. Notes I can mostly just remember. The actual flow of writing is the tricky (and to me, interesting) bit. And that's totally beyond me on paper.

I remember the first time I actually tried writing stuff using a computer, and it was a complete revelation. suddenly writing went from a totally impossible nightmare to being something that was fun and easy.