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Mobile Writing Apps - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 12-04-2017 Due to my increasing desire to write, I am finding myself a bit uneasy at my computer's age and...Issues.  However I hope to ameliorate that soon, but its made me for a while now want to try writing on a phone.  I write pages of stuff here all the time on a phone, so maybe if I can find an app that lets me export writings somehow or at least organize them, that'd be very encouraging. Does anyone know any good writing apps that can do such? RE: Mobile Writing Apps - YinYang - 12-04-2017 I think writing large volumes of text on a phone is not the best way to go about things, that's sabotaging yourself before you even started... Word is probably the software that requires the least processing power, rather just fix whatever is wrong with your PC, surely it won't be a costly fix, you just need it to run Word, nothing fancy. Maybe I'm being silly, but I believe in having the right tools for the job. Then again, JK Rowling wrote her first Harry Potter book on a typewriter, and she also wrote her ideas on napkins! Fun fact: Twelve publishing houses rejected her original Harry Potter manuscripts, but eventually small publisher Bloomsbury gave her a chance with a small advance. Little did anyone know it would become the bestselling book series in history. Her seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows broke sales records as the fastest-selling book ever. RE: Mobile Writing Apps - AnthroHeart - 12-04-2017 I self-published, and an agent I spoke to said that once you publish a book, no other publishers will look at your book. So I'm going to have to self-promote. But there's software called Grammarly, which I think is only for ios besides Windows. It's not on Android yet. It's beneficial if you do any writing. It's more for grammar checks. I use it with Microsoft Word and Outlook, and even on websites. It's checking this text as I'm typing it now. RE: Mobile Writing Apps - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 12-04-2017 I agree YY, but if a phone is my primary access to writing besides handwriting, I might have to consider it my main tool. It'd be nice not to be stuck in my room to write, sometimes a park or library, or hookah lounge is preferable. So far I just use the Memo default app on the phone, but a better app wouldn't hurt. Gemini, that's really really good to know about publishing. I'm just worried no one will want to publish someone with no writing portfolio of published works. ...Wait actually, I think I did have A short story published by my old creative writing teacher in a college magazine publication. But I never saw if it was actually published or not. RE: Mobile Writing Apps - YinYang - 12-04-2017 The first time I let loose on a school essay, the teacher wrote "COME SEE ME!" Lol! I still have it stashed somewhere in a cupboard. I don't know C_A, I hardly touch my phone these days. Maybe attach a little keyboard to your phone then... I think writing in a change of location is a very good idea, many writers do that. RE: Mobile Writing Apps - AnthroHeart - 12-04-2017 How about Open Office? It's free and open sourced and probably is available for your phone. I believe it's on tablets. I used that before I bought Word 2016 (Actually Office 2016). RE: Mobile Writing Apps - YinYang - 12-04-2017 You guys may wanna check out Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. After decades of reading and studying the myths of the world, Joseph Campbell wrote this book to describe the patterns he found common to myths from every culture in every corner of the world. Many writers use this "recipe". The 'Hero's Journey' more or less looks something like this: RE: Mobile Writing Apps - YinYang - 12-04-2017 “Follow your bliss ... If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” - Joseph Campbell RE: Mobile Writing Apps - Coordinate_Apotheosis - 12-04-2017 You know I mostly just have a talent for detail. Especially in explorational ways, I more than anything want to create places to explore, hence why I love writing so much, but to be able to make a 3D or even 2D place to explore is like a dream of mine. I very much hope one day to be good at programming. Education should be free. Thankfully I've been trying to learn thanks to some helpful resources very kind souls here have provided.