Useful Christmas Gift Ideas for Writers

Anyone would surely be delighted and pleased to receive a gift that is useful.

Why? Simply put, it's precisely because the person has a use for the received item.

Wouldn't you much prefer to get a gift that you can actually make use of on a regular basis instead of getting something that you have no use for and will just end up being displayed somewhere or put away in storage?

Giving someone a useful gift also shows that you put more thought in your choice of present and didn't just randomly select an item and decided that it looked good enough to be given away as a gift.

Much as you might want to, you can't exactly help a writer with their story or novel by writing it for them.

Instead, you can just settle for giving them a present that can help them with their writing.

No, Scrivener does not and will not write a novel for the author. That's still entirely up to the writer. However, what Scrivener will do is help make things easier for the writer.

Scrivener is a writing software with a great many features and which is available for both Windows and Mac users.

If you know that your friend or loved one is having a hard time writing his or her story, you can consider giving him or her Scrivener.

So you've decided that you do want to give the writer that you know Scrivener as a Christmas present and that's all well and good but, if you notice, it's not exactly possible to wrap this particular gift since you just download it to your PC when you buy it.

Aside from just selecting another gift, you can opt to get the writer an Amazon gift card instead.

This is because, these gift cards can be used to buy the many different products and items on Amazon.com, including the Scrivener writing software.

There are times that, even if you remember what ideas you came up with, it's just not the same or not exactly the same as when you first came up with it as there are some details that you might have missed or already forgotten. 

As such, writers would definitely appreciate being able to jot down their thoughts or any ideas they may have whenever they want to. 

Giving them a tablet or even a laptop as a Christmas gift is certainly one way of helping them achieve this.

There are a lot of small tablets like the one featured to the right, which has a 10.1-inch display, that appear to be just the right size to be carried around especially since they are pretty lightweight.

This is a digital pen (you can see an image of it below, along with some other images of the Samsung Galaxy Note), which lets you write down all sorts of things, including your story notes and ideas, of course.

There is even a handwriting-to-text engine, which converts whatever you write down into digital type, making this a truly convenient and certainly very useful tool for writers.

Aside from the many other features that this tablet has, it also comes with an S Pen as well as Samsung's Note 2.0 software.

The former allows you to write down notes and the like on your tablet whilst the latter is the program or application that supports the pen in various ways.

If you check out the Amazon product pages of either of these tablets, you'll see many more images as well as more information on their many other features that make these good choices for tablets even for non-writers.

Furthermore, if you do decide to get this from Amazon.com, you can select to have the item gift-wrapped, which makes things easier for you if you are planning to give it as a present to your writer or other loved ones.

There are some writers who prefer to make use of the traditional way of writing or at least wouldn't mind using this method once in a while.

For these kinds of people, instead of giving them a technological device, you can instead give them notebooks and journals where they can write down their thoughts and story ideas and whatever else they want to.

This is also an ideal Christmas gift choice if you don't want to spend way too much money on rather expensive tablets and laptops.

Some people are very private with their thoughts and ideas and may not yet be ready to share their story with the world especially if they are still in the process of writing their novels.

Others may just prefer to keep their story under wraps first. And still others may also want to make use of their present as a diary of sorts.

Of course, if you're giving someone a notebook or journal, you might also want to consider giving them a pen or pencil, which they can use to write on said notebook.

Or you could just decide to give your writer a set of writing materials.