Dude, seriously, you’ll get RSI writing all your stuff on your phone
He says to himself while simultaneously ignoring himself
Of all the writing I’ve done so far this year – mostly short stories – the vast majority of it has been churned out on a small screen clasped between my hands while my thumbs scramble across a virtual keyboard.
Is this a bad thing? Should I be sitting at a laptop, or better still, a typewriter? Or should I be hand writing everything?
Oh the guilt!
I have a notebook lying around somewhere that I used to use as a journal and a physical container for my literary creativity. Didn’t last, though. I’d love to be that guy who carries a notebook everywhere with him wedged down the back of his jeans while he stares off into the middle distance smoothing down his unruly beard while he thinks. You know, like a real writer. Thats what they look like, right?
I do miss a certain physicality associated with my writing at the moment, though. I imagine the delight of hammering keys instead of obsessively tapping a glass screen. Or am I needlessly romanticising?
In terms of productivity, my current method seems to work. I’m writing aren’t I? So that’s a good thing.
Guess how many posts I wrote on the first day I set myself this 30-day challenge. Four! All of them drafted on my mobile in the Medium app.
For now, I’m going to stick with what’s working. I could go on, but I feel the need to finish here because my hands are aching. Hello RSI!
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