The office in your pocket

Extract from Write it! - How to write your book in 30 hours or less

 

You can carry everything you need in your pocket and be ready to write whenever you have a few minutes or an idea strikes. A mobile phone with a note taker, voice recorder, camera and internet access will enable you to work on almost any aspect of your book wherever you are.

 
Use your note taker or voice recorder to write the next section of your book. Take photos to use on the cover or illustrate your work. Access the internet to undertake your research.

A mobile phone is one of the best tools you can have to help you make your non-writing time (planning, research) as productive as possible and enable you to add extra writing slots when the opportunity arises. Any mobile that comes with, or allows you to install, a collection of useful Apps will help increase your productivity by ensuring you do not lose any of those ideas, great opening sentences or thoughts for your next chapter.

Whilst out walking the dog you can start your next writing session; you already know the topic you are going to cover and have completed your initial research so just switch on your voice recorder and start dictating the next paragraph. Save this and type it up during your next writing session or use speech to text software to do the work for you.

If you are not comfortable talking into your phone in public then use the note taker to write your next section, no-one notices if you are “texting” whilst walking. You can email this to yourself and copy into your book.

See something that either sparks an idea or would be a useful image to illustrate your book. Use the camera feature, mobile phone cameras now create high quality images, save the image and email it yourself with some notes.

A timer is great for counting down a fifteen minute writing slot. Note your word count at the beginning and end of the session.

Mindmaps can be used to help generate ideas or plan your book. There are paid for and free Apps available.

Calculator – use this to work out how many books you need to sell this month to generate your target income.

Could you write your entire book on a phone? Yes, use every available five minutes and you will soon have that first draft finished.

 

Happy writing.