At this stage, I have switched entirely to laptop use. My home laptop gets hauled all over the house, but rarely leaves it - I have the iPad for in-transit work. My work laptop has an extra monitor (which I use as a second monitor), a keyboard and a mouse attached.
My ability to write academic stuff is pretty completely dependent on sitting at the dining table, I find. I can do find-the-detail research work anywhere, but I can't write longer academic prose anywhere else. I can do work stuff at the table, at my desk in work, and somewhat slowly from the couch - slowly because I am somewhat covered in cats there. I can also work perfectly well from anywhere that has a table, but not from bed. For fiction writing (which hasn't happened much lately, really), I can write absolutely anywhere, but it has to be on a laptop. For poetry, I can only write it longhand, often with much scribbling, and then transcribe it. And for game notes for my campaigns, again, longhand only. All of these are purely driven by habit and initial circumstance, but they are now quite solidly true.
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Date: 2016-03-05 08:59 pm (UTC)My ability to write academic stuff is pretty completely dependent on sitting at the dining table, I find. I can do find-the-detail research work anywhere, but I can't write longer academic prose anywhere else. I can do work stuff at the table, at my desk in work, and somewhat slowly from the couch - slowly because I am somewhat covered in cats there. I can also work perfectly well from anywhere that has a table, but not from bed. For fiction writing (which hasn't happened much lately, really), I can write absolutely anywhere, but it has to be on a laptop. For poetry, I can only write it longhand, often with much scribbling, and then transcribe it. And for game notes for my campaigns, again, longhand only. All of these are purely driven by habit and initial circumstance, but they are now quite solidly true.