We’ve reviewed quite a few external keyboards on GBM and our iPad writers here each have their own favorite.

How your fingers meet the keys is very personal choice and not every keyboard will feel the same, although in the end they all offer the same mechanical method of input. Prices range from $70 to $130 or so depending on the features and design that the keyboards offer. For the iPad there are quite a few choices of third party Bluetooth enabled external keyboards for you to choose from. The iPad comes with the iOS virtual on-screen keyboard, but for serious writing that may not be a choice for you. Keyboardsīefore we get into the Apps, let’s look at keyboards. The Apps and tools are grouped under large categories. Here is a look at one writer’s Best iPad Writing Apps along with some other tools that might work for you depending on your needs. Good writing tools typically cost money somewhere along the line. It’s not much different in the digital age. It was also expensive in the days of quill and ink.

Before typewriters the feel of a pen and paper for writers was very personal choice. And for many the medium chosen to lay down words is as much a part of the creative process as are ideas and a command of language. The type of writing one does affects the choice of tools. There a number of tools of the trade that offer those who earn their daily bread as a writer the opportunity to work with a smaller mobile device. Those who have moved on from paper and pen and typewriters to computers can now do so on even more mobile devices like the iPad. Consequently, every writer also has his or her favorite tools for getting those ideas on to paper whether that be the digital version or the kind that comes from trees.

Every writer is different and there are as many different ways of putting ideas into words as there are writers. It’s a very personal process for what in the end most hope will turn into a very public presentation. Writers begin with an idea and let their imaginations lead into a journey that with a careful crafting of words eventually tell us a story.

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