I wish I had a "home away from home" that I could use as a dedicated writing space. Sharing a home with 2 other adults makes that impossible. We don't have outbuildings not already in use, so I can't even hide out there somewhere. I haven't found any local restaurants that work for me, either (I had a place like that in Bisbee - I'd go at the end of the lunch hour and spend the afternoon writing when customers were nearly nonexistent, so they didn't need my table).
I am a "stations" personality. And when they update the software, or I have to switch harddrives, or any number of upsets, things get very hard for me (Both, art, writing and other things). I am also a personality where collecting and using are two different hobbies.
For writing, I have been trying to find a "only for writing" solution, that I can travel with, when needed. Laptops haven't worked very well for me in the past, though I have a couple. Recently I've acquired an Android Tablet (I wish it was actually an android!) and a mouse/keyboard mini set to use with it (I tried writing with the pen and OCR, and typing on the virtual keyboard, but neither of those worked for me). Those are a little better....but I ran into another issue...trying to find a good working word processing software! All the things I normally use don't work on the Tablet!
I'm also trying to work with Dragon Naturally, which doesn't have a tablet version, so that wouldn't work, although supposedly you can just record the dictation and then feed it into the program, haven't tried that yet.
So, for now, it's my Art/Writing Desktop Workstation (It's a beast!), with it's double monitors and monitor tablet and lighting and recording hardware surrounding me. And if I go somewhere and want to write...I do longhand in a paper notebook!
I wish I had a "home away from home" that I could use as a dedicated writing space. Sharing a home with 2 other adults makes that impossible. We don't have outbuildings not already in use, so I can't even hide out there somewhere. I haven't found any local restaurants that work for me, either (I had a place like that in Bisbee - I'd go at the end of the lunch hour and spend the afternoon writing when customers were nearly nonexistent, so they didn't need my table).
Yep. I don't think there are any restaurants in Benson that don't sound like junior high's getting out for spring break.
Very apropos, actually. LOL
I am a "stations" personality. And when they update the software, or I have to switch harddrives, or any number of upsets, things get very hard for me (Both, art, writing and other things). I am also a personality where collecting and using are two different hobbies.
For writing, I have been trying to find a "only for writing" solution, that I can travel with, when needed. Laptops haven't worked very well for me in the past, though I have a couple. Recently I've acquired an Android Tablet (I wish it was actually an android!) and a mouse/keyboard mini set to use with it (I tried writing with the pen and OCR, and typing on the virtual keyboard, but neither of those worked for me). Those are a little better....but I ran into another issue...trying to find a good working word processing software! All the things I normally use don't work on the Tablet!
I'm also trying to work with Dragon Naturally, which doesn't have a tablet version, so that wouldn't work, although supposedly you can just record the dictation and then feed it into the program, haven't tried that yet.
So, for now, it's my Art/Writing Desktop Workstation (It's a beast!), with it's double monitors and monitor tablet and lighting and recording hardware surrounding me. And if I go somewhere and want to write...I do longhand in a paper notebook!