Alternative methods of writing

I remember being excited when I got my first smartphone two years ago. My father insisted on getting it for me as a Christmas gift, convinced I would use it all the time. I had been avoiding it, for the same reason. But who is going to turn down a free smartphone?

I stupidly paid $10 for an app that would work as a word processor and PDF reader. Sure, I have used it on occasion, but it wasn't really good for writing.

I tried going online to work on articles, but most of the sites didnt support mobile creation. Every once in a while, I could get a post to work on Blogger. I found, however, that I had to keep them short, or else I would lose sight of what I was typing.

This past seek, I discovered the Blogger app in the Google Play Store, so I downloaded it to my Droid. I am actually using it right known to craft this post.

See, I carry my laptop back and forth with me to my teaching job. I don't like for the kids to use it, but I use it every day. I have music for the classroom on my Pinterest page. I check my school email on it (only during school hours). I even sometimes take a few minutes during breaks to do other stuff, whether online or jotting ideas or lines in all of those WIPs.

The risk of doing so, however, is forgetting the cord at work. In always manage to do this when I have a ton of posts due the next day and am already behind. So, guess what I did tonight?

It got me to thinking again about how much we trust our technology. Any stories that I have on there cannot be edited right now. I do have the newer ones saved to an online storage area, but that is still tough to navigate from my phone. I lost a couple of great works when my previous laptop bit the big one last November.

I started thinking about my beloved notebooks, which have story ideas, outlines, and even occasional rough drafts in them. I have some reading to do this evening, but I can still play with the notebooks to feel productive in my writing. I do love that connection of hand to pen to paper.

So, let me ask: What would you do if you suddenly had no computer on which you could write?