Writing 1.5K to 3K words a DAY

Becoming a productive writer is not about just willing yourself to write. It's about equipping yourself with the tools to succeed.
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[@parkerhankins]

This product is SO worth the price! Any serious writer will invest in this! I am SO pleased with this!

[@anniecathryn]

I really love my Freewrite Traveler. It keeps me focused!

[@wesjohnson934]

I love this product!

[@alexisxannastetic]

This Marty guy has lovely hands and explains so well!

[@jemmapollari]

Great overview!

[@REEE_Larson]

Can you work on the same files between the two devices? Say, Start a draft on the traveler and pick up working on it on the standard Freewrite?

[@aseuvella6102]

Waiting the Freewrite traveler 2 to come out, hope they can correct all the problems of 1, screen reflection, better cloud sync, improving the backwards/forward Keys, better battery life, lighter device

[@hc2622]

Is there actually news of a Traveler 2?

[@alekseyde]

Amazing tool for writers. the screen and build are fantastic. and thank you for the Ukrainian keyboard support

[@GrimGearheart]

Great product...wish I could afford it. Why is it so expensive? I can buy a tablet and a USB keyboard for $250.

[@erwin_tale]

First of all, to write so many characters on this device, you have to get this device :)

[@jamesaritchie1]

Being a productive writer is about planting your butt in a chair and writing. If you love writing, being productive is easy. If you don't love writing, tools won't help. And productive isn't nearly as important as quality. Write too fast and quality goes down the toilet. If you aren't editing, making changes, as you go, the final product is going to be crap. And no one spins crap into gold. Or almost no one. It's incredibly rare to see a terrible first draft turned into a really good first draft. Incredibly rare. The internet, and now KZbin, has fostered the belief that all first drafts are crap. Hemingway started this. Before he made that silly statement, and even after with a great many writers, no one believed that first drafts should ever be bad. Even Hemingway's first drafts were exceptionally good. Just the smallest amount or research turns up hundreds of writers over the last two hundred or so years who wrote only one draft, and masterpieces resulted. Even Shakespeare bragged that he "never blotted a line". It's tough to write more than one draft when you have to write a long play in just two weeks with a feather quill. Many, many other writers just did a very fast clean up second draft, tightening dialogue, polising description, and condensing wordy passages, but no revision and only a tiny bit of rewriting. Thousands of published novels have been written in a month or less, and long short stories in a few hours. The best way to be productive is not to write a lot of words, it's to slow down some and make the words you do write high quality. Don't leave problems you'll have to fix later. You may have to rewrite everything after that problem to make the story work. Real productivity is not words per hour, or words per days, it's how long it takes to go from word one to word last of a really good final draft. The less rewriting, revising, and editing you have to do, the faster this will happen. Want to be truly productive? Forget the Freewrite and use paper and pencil, or paper and pen. A fountain pen is the best choice. There's irrefutable scientific evidence proving that high quality words comes faster and easier when writing in longhand. It may sound counterintuitive, but when it comes to writing, slowing down is by far the best way of speeding up. That said, I don't know how many hours you have to write each day, but even with a fountain pen and paper, five hundred words per hour, high quality, publishable words, is fairly slow. I really do understand the allure of Freewrite, and I have nothing against it at all. For me, a small laptop is just as distraction free, and allows me to make corrections as I go, which is, as I said, a lot faster than making them later. "As I go" means where I am in the story, not six paragraphs back. Slow down, think twice and write once, and you won't need to go six paragraphs back. It's no coincidence that such an incredible amount of wonderful fiction was written very quickly in the age of the feather quill, the metal dip pen, the fountain pen and pencil.. These tools automatically access the creative center of the brain because we don't write letters and words on paper, we DRAW them. You don't draw with a keyboard. Though for reasons no one can explain, a MANUAL typewriter works almost as well as a pen or pencil. It's believed the force needed to press the keys, plus the sound of the keys striking the platen fools the brain into believing something is being hit with a stick, and this, weirdly enough, is also a creative action and uses the same center of the brain as drawing. Keyboards do not access the brain's creative center at all. You have to do it yourself, and while this can certainly be done, it's more difficult, and just on its own almost always produces poorer first drafts. Poor first drafts not only require a lot of work to turn into good final drafts, it often can't be done, as 99.9 percent of the self-published books out there prove. Most of these are the same books we rejected at publishing houses because we knew they couldn't be fixed. That's the thing. Like it or not, really bad first drafts can almost never be turned into really good final drafts, however much work the writer puts into one. Anyway, sure, use the Freewrite, if you must, but don't use it to write more, use it to write better. Seriously, though, if you can't use a laptop or desktop just as effectively, the problem is not with the tool, the problem is with you. You want to be doing those other distracting things more than you want to be writing. It's just this simple.

[@mkn.567]

no excuse for this to cost $500. these guys deserve bankruptcy. Please somebody in china make a version of this! parts and labor this shouldn’t cost much more than a kindle.

[@DavidAlastairHayden]

Amazon doesn’t make any profit off Kindle devices. That’s why they’re so cheap.