Nook Routine

During my summer vacation this year I read a lot on my Nook (out on the sunny dock, if you must know). I took out three library ebooks and had a couple of writing ebooks ready as backups. I got used to reading on a small screen.

Then something interesting happened when I got back home. I wanted to read my WIP while the kids were at swim lessons, but I didn’t want to take a printout. (Too conspicuous, it gets kind of windy, I didn’t want to risk losing any pages etc.) So I saved my Word doc as a pdf and slid it onto my Nook.

For one, it was exciting to pretend my WIP was a real book! For two, I was able to see my WIP in a new way and catch mistakes I might have skimmed over when reading on the computer. I was also able to follow my storyline easier because I was treating the WIP like a real book, not like a school assignment.

It was a little annoying to not be able to go in and tweak a word or delete a sentence right then and there, but I kept a list on a notepad and took care of it when I got home. This process worked so well, I continued reading the rest of the WIP that way.

This is definitely a new routine I am going to keep. I like being able to carry my WIP with me anywhere in a non-conspicuous way. At least, until I have to be a marketer and will want people noticing that I’m a writer!

Random thoughts that didn’t fit in the above blog:

1. One of the books I read was The Help, partly because I’d heard good things about it and partly because Larry Brooks was doing a deconstruction on it over at www.storyfix.com. Check it out!

2. When we got home from vacation, we found out that while we were gone our temp mail carrier did not receive our HOLD MAIL notice and instead of holding our mail, sent everything Return to Sender; Undeliverable. Among my first thoughts? What if this had been the olden days and I was waiting to hear back from query letters?!