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[oneiriad]

What I should be doing:
Writing my Yuletide fic - well, at least I have an idea for it (and an iPad - any advice on the best way of approaching fic-writing on iPad, since that's one thing I really wanted to use it for? Do I have to invest in an app or will googledocs work fine or?)

What I'm actually doing:
Watching The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (being the last person on the internet so to do, I know). Playing silly games on my iPad. (At least I'm familiarizing myself with it, right?)

Comments

[kabal42]

Writing on iPad:
1) Get a keyboard
2) Get an app like iA writer. It has dropbox and iCloud integration or you can just use native files. It's simple and because it's .txt only, it's very stable and runs well even over a 3G connection. If you're on wireless g-docs work too, but I found that it quickly got unstable for me and that's just so annoying. (YMMV, of course, and you can always test g-docs.) Oh, and iA Writer is free.

[oneiriad]

Thanks, I'll look into that.

[lysanatt]

Yup, keyboard and an appropriate app. G Docs suck for iPad use. I use a combo of CleanWriter and DraftPad and I have SugarSync (free 6gb storage that syncs between various computers) to keep things safe.

[oneiriad]

Thanks.

[blnchflr]

I wouldn't recommend the ipad for heavy-duty writing at all, actually - it can be done, but it's not geared for it, and you're going to find yourself doing unergonomical things constantly.

[oneiriad]

Well, I was thinking less heavy-duty and more as an alternative to old-fashioned paper and pen for the "sitting-somewhere-not-at-my-computer-and-getting-the-first-version-out-of-my-head-and-down-somewhere" part of writing. Though we'll see how it goes.

[calvinahobbes]

Yay, Lizzie Bennet \o/ I'm watching the new episodes as they come out, but I still have a backlog of episodes ~20 through ~50 that I haven't seen. Think we should pimp it this weekend?

[oneiriad]

I am presently (as in right now) watching episode 60 (and might possibly have it on pause and procrastinating before unpausing it because of my unfortunate case of embarrassment squick).

I think pimping might be a possibility - I mean, it's not like the episodes are long.

[calvinahobbes]

Aw, IDK so far the videos haven't really embarrassment squicked me? I think they handled episode 60 really well. (I think they're handling ALL the episodes really well!)

Honestly, I would be happy just to get to show them, like, episode 1.

[oneiriad]

Yeah, they handled it well enough (it's just that my embarrassment squick is very much of an anticipatory nature, and sometimes it anticipates things that then succeed wildly in failing to materialize).

Episode 1 is good. And 2. And 3. Maybe 4 [...] oh, and 61. 61 is fun. - But yeah, that might be a tad too many episodes... ;-)

Mind you, I'm looking forward to seeing all the sisters reuniting. Lizzie's fun and Lydia's fun off in her side of the story, but they are even better together.

[calvinahobbes]

Aw, I think I understand that.

Agreed! But I think 61 is too spoilery? There's a certain charm to not knowing HOW the major plot points will go down in this iteration.

Yesss, you need to catch up ASAP. Although then comes the point where you'll be pining for updates constantly, I guess :oS

[oneiriad]

Well, it's not spoilery if you watch episode 1-60 first... ;-)

Yesss, you need to catch up ASAP.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnndddddddddddddddd done. Wait, that's it? Where's episode 68? Where????????????? *pokes internet*

[calvinahobbes]

:D :D :D