Welcome… I’m New Here! I must be mad...

[PaulMac]

Hiya everyone. This is my first time posting here and I'm unsure as to what I've let myself in for. I decided back in 2019 to have another shot at writing an adult novel (previously I've just dabbled in children's fiction - a small novella and a picture book - and a couple of spoof fan fiction books, all self published of course, through my own company Little Films Ltd), so I've spent the last six years writing and re-writing, editing, re-writing again, losing it, finding it, burying it in soft peat for three years and finally recycling it as firelighters...

...hang on, no. That's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I just accidentally deleted it and spent a week or so panicking and downloading every file recovery app I could find in the hope I could get it back from the aether. Then I realised that it had been saved to the cloud and I thanked the literary gods for making me shell out for the extra 2Tb of cloud space.
You see, I write on my phone using a really nice app called Storyist, which allows me to format it easily and save it as a PDF, RTF or even FDX file for importing scripts into Final Draft (I write scripts too, mostly just for fun as I have a background in television production and animation. Although I'm currently in the process of launching a Kickstarter for a little film project I'm planning).

Storyist is pretty cool though.

 

[AgentPete]

Hey Paul, really nice to have you on board!

I think this is the first time I’ve actually come across a writer who executes on their phone… wow! Is this full length stuff, e.g. 80k words or so? How do you manage?

p.

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Hi and welcome.

nice to see someone who isn't likely to complain about people "who are glued to their phones all the time". xx

 

[RK Wallis]

Welcome aboard, @PaulMac I'm glad you recovered your book - phew!

 

[Claire G]

Welcome @PaulMac xx

 

[Pamela Jo]

There are others on here who write on their phones. I think you all have tiny fingers and eyes that sprong out and hang down. There is no other explanation. Sympathies on the deletion. My wolfhound kindly helped my writing by knocking a glass of iced tea into my laptop thus making sure I no longer had to deal with that sticky space key since I had to buy a whole new one. Google docs is where I save all my stuff, but would love to find something better. I got a free trial of Plottr, but never had time to trial it and now I'm banned from another freebie and Scrivener wants more money tho I bought a "lifetime" subscription about a decade ago that I never used. I will say that my son had a whole young Shakespeare swordy series on a writing ap and they went down overnight losing him EVERYTHING. Caveat Emptor. I also liked zohowriter. Microsoft 365 (Word Online), Zoho Writer, Quip, Dropbox Paper, and Nuclino.

Storyist - Home. Storyist sounds like a copy of Scrivener.

 

[Sedayne]

Hi @PaulMac

Nice to meet you. Glad you rescued your work. It's both reassuring and alarming to know that it's all still out there somewhere.

I too write on my phone sometimes. I do the bulk of my writing on my laptop, but the phone is handy when I'm out and about, or I get an idea for something that can't wait. I also enjoy reading and editing my writing on the phone. No time in a queue or waiting room is ever wasted.

See you around the Colony,
Rachel