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There's an app for that - #MFRWAuthor 52-week blog challenge

5/3/2019

 
This week's blog prompt concerns apps: do they maximize one's time or waste it?

An "app" for those under 30 years old is an abbreviation for "application." Every computer uses applications. "Computer" doesn't just refer to the big, clunky machine on your desk. Yes, Virginia, your smartphone is a computer.

(If you didn't catch that reference, go back to school.)

I remember writing longhand. There are advantages to that, the main one being that the slow pace of writing by hand forces the writer to write with intent and be thoughtful about the words she scribes. Typewriters sped up the process as well as eliminated the need for people to try to decipher someone's poor penmanship. Then came computers with their miraculous ability to delete and add words without the use of erasers or Liquid Paper. For touch-typists, computers heralded the advent of mental diarrhea made public.

Apps as applicable to mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets) don't apply to me. I seldom used a cell phone and I certainly don't write stories on my Kindle Fire. I've come across excerpts of stories written on a cell phone and every single one of them was awful, not only in terms of being poorly conceived and badly written, but also in terms of spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc.

Apps, in the common parlance and current understanding, don't really add anything to writing. Instead of fomenting creativity, I think they encourage laziness and sloppiness.
Cathy Brockman link
5/3/2019 09:45:22 am

I do agree with part of this and would never write my blurb or other on an app without having it seen to by my team just like the story. If I read a poor blurb chances are it wont grab me. The apps I use are grammar apps since its been so long that I have been in school. I find them pretty necessary even though I have human editor as well. she would fire me if i didn't lol

Sadira Stone link
5/3/2019 10:47:39 am

Writing a story on a phone, one tiny snippet at a time, would take tremendous focus. There's not enough coffee in the world for me to do that.

Mary J McCoy-Dressel link
5/5/2019 09:44:53 am

Nope, I would not attempt to write a blurb or excerpt on a tablet or phone. I grew up in a time of writing stories in longhand too, but I prefer writing them on my computer now. When my laptop needed repair, I went back to longhand until it returned. It was kind of nice to remember the flow that came with longhand writing.

Kate Hill link
5/5/2019 08:02:35 pm

It never occurred to me to write a story on a phone. I wouldn't feel comfortable doing that, but everyone is different.


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