I realize that there will be a great many people that read that headline and know the answer.

There are probably a number of people that already write articles using their phone, but it was something I wanted to investigate for myself.

In the not too distant past I had a job creating content for a new blogging app. The company also used a lot of college “interns” and I found out that many of them were writing their articles entirely on their phone. I was flabbergasted. The idea sounded horrible to me. I spend more time with my keyboard than most of my family, I couldn’t believe wanted to write that way.

So this article is written entirely by phone. Hopefully it won’t be apparent due to lack of quality.

The hardest thing to get over is typing with your thumbs. I realize that everyone has written text messages but I never write close anything this long.

Why would you want to do this?

Even though I’m typing this at home, a mobile user could really get more from this. Over this past summer, I spent a lot of time waiting in a doctor’s office. Because I’m a troglodyte and I like to eschew technological trends it wasn’t possible to work on my phones. I laughed my computer around with me typing away while I could have been using a much easier solution.

Do I like it?

Not particularly, but it would work in a pinch. It would probably work a lot better with an external keyboard. But for this article I limited myself to thumb typing.

Though, one benefit I didn’t anticipate was that it did help with creativity. I also worked on several upcoming fiction stories and I found that I made some breakthroughs in several stories that I’d been struggling to write.

I assume that changing the writing process helped considerably. I, like many writers, am a creature of habit and I tend to get stuck in creative ruts. Usually, I switch to pen and paper but this worked too. It’s nice to have another option.

So I think the experiment worked and it could be another viable writing option.