How Freewrite Helped an International Bestselling Author Write Again

"The Freewrite didn't just save my career. It helped me rediscover who I was."
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[@JohnDavis-mu9je]

I think that the reason writers of times past were able to be so prolific was because they didn't have the distractions of today's technology. The simple typewriter was all they needed to allow for creativity to flow. Thanks for the review.

[@uptown3636]

This might be the best sales pitch ever made. Still on the fence about buying a freewrite, but I have such respect for the skills that went into producing this.

[@bizmonkey007]

There are other options. The Freewrite products are cool but are way too overpriced for what they are.

[@cierahortonmcelroy6777]

These reviews helped me go for my own Freewrite. It's helped me have a fun way to reconnect with my career!

[@pauliecaccamise1980]

It helped me rediscover who I was

[@doclail8165]

I love hearing the story of how other authors are using their Freewrite devices to create amazing content. Here is to a 1,000 new worlds birthed via Freewrite!

[@QuinnLoftis]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you for your review. I'm trying to figure out if this is the right device for me. I've written 30 novels and been writing full time for 8 years and the distractions have gotten ridiculous.

[@StevenSavile]

Thank you for the kind words. I have no idea what will or won’t work for you, but there is a lot to be said for breaking away from the distractions - however you chose to go about that. I hope you found your solution and the new numbers are just as impressively increased over the last year or so, Steve

[@kevinbirge2130]

If you want something that behaves like a typewriter, buy it. I got the Traveler. That’s all it is. That’s all I need. Perfect.

[@pauliecaccamise1980]

I love this story. Thank you for sharing. Very inspiring

[@latinobeef]

Appreciate your opening up for us.

[@magnusthearts]

Freewrite seems to be a really fine piece of writing equipment! Zero distractions!

[@rubitube_panama]

White edition? I love it! 👍👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Nikkimond]

Great video seeing his experience.

[@mackfarlainethebarenakedau5113]

I can't wait to get one. I need to get ahead of these ideas somehow.

[@NethirOsman]

This is interesting, I used to right so much, not that it was a novel or anything but it was significant amount of reflections and research from my personal health journey and journaling, my next aim to write a children’s book. After I lost the support of the health support groups or communities, I couldn’t write anything like you said everything was fragmented and lacking flow and rhythm, took forever to get something going, but I’m moving location, but also think the free write will give that distraction free writing back, I also attended a retreat that cuts out all the distractions so I wrote to my hearts content like I desired and loved it it lit me up the same way it did, so starving those distractions, but also going through the emotions of grief and loss, by writing has been what worked for me, maybe not for everyone but I think the freewrite will be the next evolution in handling this all

[@NethirOsman]

I am in no way comparing what you went to to my self, just a nice reflection and connection point, sorry for you loss, and sorry for any offence caused in advanced

[@Scott_Stone]

Honestly, I can't imagine keeping this much information in my head at a single point in time. Distraction-free is cool but a cohesive story is much more important. So yeah, I'd much rather use Obsidian and have a bunch of interconnected notes and links to keep the story together than have a thing that wouldn't let me peek at the things that I've already done.

[@hc2622]

Are you still in love with it 3 years later? What is your rebuttal for the e-ink delay?

[@Redundant_underscore]

I'll never spend 500 dollars on that, but I've had a Neo for years, and it really is liberating.

[@loveisall5520]

You sound like you should've been born in my generation; I came of age pre-PC and all that. Typewriters are so creative and one can see the page which you can't on any computerized product. However, I'm delighted that in today's environment you have found an instrument that allows you to produce.

[@DiamondDogsBand]

It is really as good!

[@TurnFullCircle]

Diamond Dogs that’s my question too, the only stumbling block is parting with my hard earned cash..!

[@biancamariacornick6080]

@@TurnFullCircle same here. Did you go for it?

[@TurnFullCircle]

Bianca Maria Cornick still on the fence! Sorry.....😃

[@biancamariacornick6080]

@@TurnFullCircle Yes, so am I.

[@nhatcrawford]

How did you get it into Word? Printed? Edited? I can't transfer what's on my Freewrite into Word because the USB is now outdated. Frustrated.

[@johnmonk66]

When was this writer's block? Because he has published every one of the last 15 years with no breaks

[@aprilgosa5779]

johnmonk it was when his dad died what are you implying

[@johnmonk66]

@@aprilgosa5779 that he never had writers block idiot, writers block means you cant write

[@StevenSavile]

Not to be that guy, but writing and publishing are massively different things, right now I have four novels written over the last two years that are still to be published. The publication process is incredibly slow. After dad died and I went thought is 6-8 month period where I couldn’t work old books made it look like the productivity wasn’t changing. The main thing that happened as the ideas started returning was that everything was slow, concentration was fractured, and what I used to do in a week was taking three, or four. I did, for the longest time over the period where the St Martin’s novels came out, fear that I’d never find that version of me again. It’s tough when you’ve based you identity on work for so long. But to go to your question, if I died today there still would be four completed novels, one computer game, two completed rpg scenarios/campaigns and a bunch of odds and ends that could be released while I was in the ground, making it look like I’m still producing. My wife will attest, I write almost every single day - maybe 6-7 a year when I don’t get some words down. Not all day, but with consistency

[@dosgos]

@@StevenSavile Really separates our internal writer and internal editor. I think Peter Elbow's "Writing without Teachers" is the book that taught me how to do that. A distraction-free device without real editing power helps. Japanese cafes are filled with writers and hopeful typing away on the Pomera devices, which are similar (more portable but not the same quality).

[@bizmonkey007]

I feel for the guy but the price of the Freewrite is way too high for it be a serious option for many writers.

[@stanguay169]

Or you know, use your PC/laptop disconnected from the Internet... It is possible. And still have cursor keys to edit...

[@StevenSavile]

It is, and as I said on another response, now I am using the 5g connectivity in the iPad and my ability to work is back where it was before the death of my dad. What is hard to convey is how much grief just fragmented my thoughts. I didn’t have a single new idea in a year, for a mind that would usually fire off a few fully formed stories or concepts a month. It was a tough period. Stranger though was that I’d try to write, I’d sit with the laptop in front of me every day, go to the cafe to work, but wasn’t producing anything. A few sentences, mainly crap. I would find myself putting up WiFi productivity blockers etc, but trying to circumvent them. I bought a ten year old Lenovo and turned it into a Linux kiosk that couldn’t do anything but access the scrivener build they had, but the battery panic (140 mins) kept distracting, and making me panic... and everything was overwhelming and finding ways to distract me because I desperately wanted distracting, because in the silence I’d be reminded of what I’d lost rather than falling into the creativity that used to be a familiar safe place. It was a very much appreciated tool that helped me come back. Could another have done it? Sure. But that’s someone else’s story,

[@alangarde2928]

@@StevenSavile This is such a wonderfully succint way of expressing this turmoil. Thankyou for sharing your thoughts and feelings. The brain is a weird thing and once you get into that sort of mindset its a real challenge to break out of it. I'm glad you found this device to relearn to enjoy writing and retrain your brain so now that you can use other devices without that 'blank page' taunting you.

[@m6pops]

@@StevenSavile I've been using my Hermes Rocket for distraction-free writing. The Freewrite would be much lighter and not require scanning my hard copy. Am I then to understand that you're using your iPad instead of the freewrite? As it's been two years, have you gone back to the freewrite or traveler?

[@StevenSavile]

Hi, yeah, that's exactly correct. The freewrite was fundamental in breaking the grief cycle and all of the issues that went with not being able to focus, to come up with new ideas, or see them through, but after I broke that (White Peak, the novel as Ronan Frost for St Martins was the last thing I wrote on the freewrite) I went over to my iPad Pro, running scrivener, which is pretty close to prefect. I only wrote 10k words on my traveller and hated the keyboard, but have the new one that looks like an Alphasmart on the way soon, but to be honest, the iPad Pro is about perfect. I can't actually remember if I talk about it in the video, but I went on a mad quest for distraction free writing during that window when my brain was broken - I tried building linux kiosks, you name it, but nothing worked. So I am really grateful that this came when it came. Now, my set up is mad. I've got four screens in front of me, 16" MacBook Pro, onto a 27" huaweii monitor with a 17" touchscreen beneath it and an iPad Pro to the side, all under universal control and running software called Causality, which is made for film writing but works brilliantly for books and games - I have research in one window, timeline beats in another, the actual writing on the 17" touchscreen, and notes on the iPad... so I'm the opposite of distraction free today. @@m6pops