Comments on: Writing on Your iPhone: One Novelist’s Story

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:00:22 +0000

That’s a great angle. I was thinking about getting an iphone to be able to capture every thought as they came to me, like in the bathroom and stuff. I hope it goes well for you.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:26:14 +0000

I don’t think there is any way I could write a book on the iPhone although the iPhone is my platform of choice for my first book - a Choose Your Own Adventure - like story for adults. It’s called “Beer, Women and Bad Decisions…” and I can’t imagine a better platform to kick off my little writing career!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:25:06 +0000

I recently bought an iPod touch, and it’s my new favorite writing tool; takes some practice to get up to speed, but when I don’t feel like sitting at the computer, or I’m out somewhere, it’s great for an impromptu writing session or for keeping track of ideas I might otherwise lose. I don’t find the idea of writing an entire novel on it crazy at all. However, I do find the idea that a novel’s having been written completely on a particular device then becomes a marketing hook for the novel — well, really silly, and frankly, sad; sad, I mean, that writers have to resort to such gimmicks to sell books. No matter what you use to write the book, it’s still the words that matter in the end.

By: Davis Kirschbaum

Davis Kirschbaum — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:43 +0000

Interesting read. There is currently quite a lot of information around this subject around and about on the net and some are most defintely better than others. You have caught the detail here just right which makes for a refreshing change - thanks.

By: matt guzman

matt guzman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:28:29 +0000

I thought this was awsome! I recently purchased an ipod touch, which has the same apps as the iphone. And just like your story mine started the same way. I began playing with the notes app and started writting a short story which is also written as a journal. at first I thought it was an original idea to write a novel completely on an ipod but it seems you beat me to it. Oh well I may not be first but my story uses the ipod through out it. it is an inexhaustible tool for the characters. I felt by using it in the story that was being written on it was a nice touch. anyway god luck with your iphone novel. lord knows i’ll need it on mine

By: Wandoko

Wandoko — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:40:29 +0000

Interesting writing project, the lack of tactile feed back surely require a fair amount of patience. I’m not a writer, but sometimes, suddenly I have something in my mind I thought worth to be written, and I grab my mobile phone and wrote those words with the keypad, tapping the keys two or three times and even four times, just to get my letter comes up, iphone with its touchscreen it will be easier for that aha moments. I feel that if I’m going to do a writing project with that little device, I need to get used to with it, and at the point when I’m not amazed anymore with its advance in technology, write.

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By: Dustin Wax

Dustin Wax — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:48:28 +0000

Anne: Good point. As a general rule, anything new we in the US can think of to do with our cell phones, the Japanese have already tried it, perfected it, and become blase’ about it. To be fair, Japanese writing can make use of ideograms to pack more meaning into a smaller space than English can, but it’s true — they’ve been writing and reading novels on their phones for at least a couple years now.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:26 +0000

Just to share, in case others haven’t seen these articles…cell phone novels have been apparently been gaining popularity in Japan. See, for instance, this 2007 article from Wired: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/01/72329 and the January 2008 article in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html . The latter article provides an interesting note: “Of last year’s 10 best-selling novels, five were originally cellphone novels….”

By: Jens Poder

Jens Poder — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:18 +0000

This reminds me… Why isn’t there a Bluetooh keyboard for the Iphone. I have written loads of stuff on my old Palm Pilot using a small folding keyboard.

Typing on the screen is usable, but not very fast, due to lack of tactile feedback.

- Jens Poder