Mon 1 Feb 2010
I think I may be an app, as in “There’s an app for that”
Posted by sandi under apps, bloglily, books, inanimate objects, iPhone, technology, What Comes After Crazy
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I go along mostly feeling as though I’m pretty much keeping up with modern life. Or at least make a passable pretense of it.
After all, I have tweeted. I have visited tumblr. I can (usually) upload and download photos. Recently I’ve learned to work not only my television set but also the DVD player and the VCR without even looking for the manual. I can program the GPS to get me places (although I often argue with it.) I even go on facebook whenever I think of it, which isn’t all that often, but still. Facebook is a well-known time suck. You could go on there and between farmville and what-Jane-Austen-character-are-you and sending and receiving little green plants, you could lose years of your life, and emerge crazier than when you went in.
But today modern life soared out in front in an effort to confuse me. I found out that I’m actually an app. Or rather "What Comes After Crazy" is.
(What Comes After Crazy is my first novel, and I still feel very protective about it, since it took me a ridiculous number of years to write, and so it lived in my head longer than most children live with their parents. And now it’s been out in the world since 2005, but, like any good parent, I still try to keep up with where it hangs out, you know. Part of that keeping track of it means that I have a google alert on it, so that whenever anybody writes anything about it, google tells me about it.)
And google has reported today that it’s an app.
Aren’t apps like when you have an iPhone and you want to know what restaurant to go to, and there’s an app for that? Or you want to check the sports scores, and so there’s an app for that?
So, here’s my question. Are people, you know, going to read a whole novel…on the phone? Is that what this means? Come on now. Do people seriously want to read on screens that are the size of their fingertips? Or does this have something to do with the iPad, which as Bloglily pointed out, may be the worst name of a product ever.
I have no idea. I’m just here, making my way through winter, leading writing workshops and working on a new novel—and every now and then, going out to once again do battle with technology: arguing with my GPS, wondering why tumblr doesn’t have an E in it, and following some tweets.
Is there an app for any of that?
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February 1st, 2010 at 8:17 pm
OMG, WHAT is the app??? Inquiring minds want to know. I am so impressed, even without knowing what the app is.
February 1st, 2010 at 9:26 pm
With all this technology we have to keep up with, pretty soon we’ll need an App just for our writing, having to program it into our gadgets just to get work done 😉
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:09 pm
That is super cool!!!!
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Iceberg Reader appears to be responsible for your app-iness. (your app-itude?) sorry. But iceberg? Is that where they send the shrinking population of readers?
I don’t know, but it was cool to see that there’s already a reader thing on iphones, something many others may already know, but I certainly didn’t.
xo
February 4th, 2010 at 10:17 am
So weird, isn’t it? On the other hand, anything that allows people to read good books has to be ok. One of my books is being turned into an app (apped–if it isn’t a verb yet, it will be soon), too. I have trouble getting my head around this.
You’ve got me beat, though–what’s a tumblr?
February 21st, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I think you are official and “have arrived” when you have an “app”
Lindsey Petersen
http://5kidswdisabilities.wordpress.com
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Believe it or not, my son who seems to have been born with more technological genes than everyone in our family put together, reads books all the time on his i-phone. He travels a lot, and that little device is the only entertainment module he carries with him. Movies, games, books – all in his pocket.
February 17th, 2011 at 10:47 am
I’ve just discovered you.
I absolutely LOVED Kissing Games of the World and intend to get your other novels.
I recently took a workshop and really enjoyed it. :O)