Jotting down notes from the inspirations that hit us.
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As a writer, this is what I do for a living, I believe I can speak for this group of people and offer some ideas of what would make the Ultimate stocking stuffers for us.
Our biggest pet peeves are the internet acting up, our computers' freezing up, having no way to record our ideas when they hit us and not being able to come up with that allusive word.
Those issues are solved with this list of the Ultimate stocking stuffers for writers.
Hand Held Voice Recorder
Inspiration comes at the most inconvenient of times, thus tools to help writers take notes is always a top choice.
Hand held voice recorders are just such a tool. They allow writers to record their notes when they are in situations where they cannot take written notes, such as behind the wheel of a car. How much I would love to be able to reach into my purse and pull out a voice recorder to tape the ideas that come to me when I'm driving down the highway to visit my daughter who lives a few states away. That would be a very cool thing to be able to do.
The Ultimate of Ultimate stocking stuffers for writers is a hand held voice recorder.
A Cool Pen
Writers are very particular about the pens they use. Even though most of us type instead of freehand, we use pens when jotting down our ideas in the middle of the night. We use our fingers so much with our typing that a comfortable pen is something we feel we deserve.
Give the Ultimate stocking stuffer of a very cool pen to your writers this Christmas.
Earplugs
By complete accident, I found out how powerful a tool earplugs are to writers.
I am in the process of writing my first novel and during the Thanksgiving Holiday, everyone was making too much noise in the house and I was unable to think straight. I kept being pulled from the world my character lived in, into a room where my family was trying to entertain themselves since they were not at work or school. I finally gave in and took a pair of earplugs from my husband.
They worked. It was not so much that they softened the noises around me, but that they allowed me to hear my thoughts better. I can hear my character's voice better with them on, and so when noveling, I wear them whether someone is in the house with me or not.
Our biggest pet peeves are the internet acting up, our computers' freezing up, having no way to record our ideas when they hit us and not being able to come up with that allusive word.
Those issues are solved with this list of the Ultimate stocking stuffers for writers.
Hand Held Voice Recorder
Inspiration comes at the most inconvenient of times, thus tools to help writers take notes is always a top choice.
Hand held voice recorders are just such a tool. They allow writers to record their notes when they are in situations where they cannot take written notes, such as behind the wheel of a car. How much I would love to be able to reach into my purse and pull out a voice recorder to tape the ideas that come to me when I'm driving down the highway to visit my daughter who lives a few states away. That would be a very cool thing to be able to do.
The Ultimate of Ultimate stocking stuffers for writers is a hand held voice recorder.
A Cool Pen
Writers are very particular about the pens they use. Even though most of us type instead of freehand, we use pens when jotting down our ideas in the middle of the night. We use our fingers so much with our typing that a comfortable pen is something we feel we deserve.
Give the Ultimate stocking stuffer of a very cool pen to your writers this Christmas.
Earplugs
By complete accident, I found out how powerful a tool earplugs are to writers.
I am in the process of writing my first novel and during the Thanksgiving Holiday, everyone was making too much noise in the house and I was unable to think straight. I kept being pulled from the world my character lived in, into a room where my family was trying to entertain themselves since they were not at work or school. I finally gave in and took a pair of earplugs from my husband.
They worked. It was not so much that they softened the noises around me, but that they allowed me to hear my thoughts better. I can hear my character's voice better with them on, and so when noveling, I wear them whether someone is in the house with me or not.
My husband has joked that he intends to fill my stocking with ear plugs!
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