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I'd love that, ericvancewalton@ericvancewalton! What's the best way to get in touch? Discord? Keybase? We can always do an 11:00a.m. Friday at Gorkha for the lunch buffet. I still have a month or so without any travel scheduled.

That's exactly what I'm discovering. The biggest obstacle is myself, and I'm in the discipline phase right now. Scheduling times to write. It's tough because I have a son, and vermillionfox@vermillionfox to keep me company, but they're usually both gone during the mornings and afternoons in four days a week. The connected device is a problem for me as well [...again, back to discipline]. I'm working on a horror story that's part of the Lovecraft mythos, that takes place in the late 1880's. I find myself Googling things like "...did Puritans have springs in their beds?", and before I know it, I haven't actually written for an hour.

I'm getting better about allowing freeform stream of consciousness writing to happen, but it's still a challenge. My attempt to correct this is a very "first world" solution [...which I'm aware of]. I bought this Boox Nova Pro. It's about an 8" e-ink tablet running Android. It can connect to a Bluetooth keyboard. It does have WiFi, but from everything I read, the browser experience is SO bad, you wouldn't want to use it unless it was an emergency. I'm going to try and bring this [...and only this setup] to the coffee shop next week and see if it's a good experience.

I was amazed at how much I fell in love with my Kindle Paperwhite. Initially, I couldn't understand what people saw in those devices, until I bought one and realized the LACK of notifications, features and stimulation is what made it so great. Everything gets out of the way and you can just read. I'm hoping this'll be a similar experience, but from a writing point of view. I'll most likely do an entire Steemit post on how it goes.

I'd love to get together, man. If you're on Discord, my username is kommienezuspadt#6545 and on Keybase, I'm just kommienezuspadt!

@kommienezuspadt: I'd love that, | Ecency