Please don’t come up with a mini-screen-scrivener for iPhones. Here’s my vision:
I would rather have my writing on an iPod. How can I then read and type? I can’t, I don’t want to, I won’t. My imaginery version of Scrivener would read my writings to me ( with text-to-speech ) and put it on an iPod in some organized fashion.
Rather than typing changes, I would use an iPhone-scrivener app as a dictaphone to record. Future-scrivener would place those audio-files in the correct locations in the original scrivener document that still lives on my mac.
I feel, a true writer, while out in the real world, should open her or his eyes to that world and not fiddle with small electronic handheld distractions. Again, I feel you should not come up with the iOS equivalent of a Norwegian Blue Parrot.
Interesting idea, but for me that would be useless. For one, I don’t want to be talking into my phone or iPad while in the library, or a cafe, or the bus, or the numerous places where the muse hits me. Nor would I want the people I observe to hear me capture my impressions of them (or worse, the fictional stories I create based on them). I quite confident the people around me don’t want to hear me prattle on about my academic research, or trying to phrase a coherent sentence that appropriately indicates the source of the information I’m citing while simultaneously accurately representing that information and will also read fluently.
But even if none of the above bothered me (or those around me), I still don’t like the dictaphone method because I’d have to listen to my own voice, with all the starts and stops and mistakes, and I’d still have to type it all anyway.
Glad it works for you, but I need to able input text and am greatly looking forward to the iOS version of Scrivener.
Ah, of course, as we were told a few years back, “All real writers write in white letters on a blue background,” or very similar words. Perhaps he too was talking about a Norwegian Blue Parrot!
