30 Technology Tips for Writers — Use a Digital Camera

by Scot Herrick on September 10, 2007

Digital Cameras for WritingThis month, I’m providing a writer’s technology tip-a-day (along with other posts) to help you in your writing goals.

Today’s tip: Use a Digital Camera.

Many of us are visual — we like the one picture that portrays the thousand words. The notes on the page simply don’t cut it when it comes to remembering a setting, a city, or a landscape.

Enter the digital camera. Digital cameras have really advanced in both clarity of the picture as well as the ability to frame a picture. Easily downloaded to a computer as well, digital cameras allow you to take a multitude of pictures and select the best one that you need to enhance your writing. They are now consistently small where a good digital camera can fit into a shirt pocket or purse.

The picture allows the writer to save a scene, capture a unique feature of a person for a character, or get in close to see the details of something that will add depth to your writing.

A camera is not for every writer. But pictures can allow you to write the thousand words. Before editing, of course…

Scot

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