I blogged last week about different tricks I was using to stay afloat in NaNoWriMo, and I realised afterwards that I’d missed out an important point that I’ll rectify now. The importance of choosing the right tools for your writing.

As I intend to have a fairly scheduled writing experience – writing 500 words at four independent slots, I want to be able to write absolutely anywhere, and still have access to word counts, backing up, and my other tools (like my Word Count Checker). Luckily for me, I have an iPad 2, which will be my out-of-home writing tool of choice.

I’ve got two different apps for writing, both of which have been tested this month to see if they can endure my writing habits, and the clear winner is the very lovely “My Writing Spot” for iPad (and for iPhone, android and so on, but I like iPads so shh!) It might not sync brilliantly with google docs, it DOES sync fluidly with the My Writing Spot website. While on my laptop I prefer to write in MS Word, but with a quick copy+paste I can sync my most recent work with My Writing Spot and carry on working from my iPad… then do the vice versa once I’m back at home.

Perfect! All I need now is a bluetooth keyboard…