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18,000-Word Novella Written on an OQO

To whine about getting no work done on tiny UMPC keyboards is to invite correction from those who can: OQO just fired me a testimonial it got from one user who claims to have written 18,000 words of a novel on theirs. "I’ve just come back from holiday to Crete and the OQO 02 was […]

To whine about getting no work done on tiny UMPC keyboards is to invite correction from those who can: OQO just fired me a testimonial it got from one user who claims to have written 18,000 words of a novel on theirs.

"I've just come back from holiday to Crete and the OQO 02 was fantastic. Whilst sitting on the balcony in the shade I typed almost 18,000 words towards a novel I'm writing. No thumb ache either."

While not exactly an epic chunk — that's only about 70 pages — it's far more than I can manage. My thumbboard output typically reads like so: "i'''ll fix yr websssite by wednsadya ,ornig. promis!"

What's the magic, folks? Is it an age thing? Or a fat sausage fingers thing?