Much as I love my Kindle, my smartphone is always with me, and easy to hold in my hand. So, the smartphone wins.

Messy. :-)

When I was four, I wrote a story about a monster which ate Manhattan. New Yorkers can relax - I grew up in Kansas, so I feel fairly certain that I was talking about the Little Apple. Apparently, I had a thing against Wildcats even then. I still have the story, pasted into a scrapbook somewhere.

I'm writing a series. Potentially a quite long series, with volumes of differing lengths. No publisher in their right mind would publish an 80k word novel, then two 20k novellas, then a 50k novel, then a few novellas... etc. Plus - creative control. The downside - the Black Hole of Fear and Doubt that sucks me in when I read back over everything I have written.

When I do let someone else read and they not only like it, they GET it.

Well, I do have a day job which pays my bills and provides health insurance, so I'm afraid I'm going to have to say that. Otherwise, I could conceivably spend a day or so in bed with my tablet and bluetooth keyboard.

Charlotte's Web is the first one I remember reading on my own. It destroyed me.

If I ever have any fans, they will mean the WORLD to me. :-)

I write a lot of stories from insane dreams that I have. Sadly, dreams don't make a lot of sense. So then I have to figure out an actual PLOT to go with the odd scene, setting, or conspiracy from my dream. Did you know they have an app for that? It doesn't always give something that works or makes sense, but hey. It gives a jumping off point - sparks the brain to make connections. It's kind of like using a tarot deck, actually. It gives you meanings, but you read into it what you will. And, of course, with the plot app, you can just plain change things, or refresh it ten times until you get something that makes more sense (also like a tarot reading, lol). But then I sit down and write a long (500 to 1000 words) synopsis, break that down into scenes, copy and paste the scene lines into text files in Scrivener, and sit there and write. Having the scene lines at the top helps me know what each scene is supposed to be about without having to go back to the synopsis each time. I got this method from more than one website, but I can't remember the names...
The Fates prefer a more RPG-style method of choosing the plot. They have a D20 and a copy of Plotto. I think it must be an abridged version of Plotto, though, or the D20 wouldn't work. We don't question the Fates.

I'm working on a series. I have fifty stories going at once. Not because someone wants me to but because... ooh! shiny! I did manage to discipline myself (no flogging necessary) enough to write a 20k novella in four days in March (2015), and then a week later write the last half of a 40k novel followed by the full synopsis for another 20k novella. That's how I spent my vacation. I drove ten hours away to a lodge, did minimal sight-seeing, and just wrote. Worked for me... as to the question, the series is about a Greek goddess who grows up in the late 20th century. When the Fates spun the thread of her life, it spun out of control and frayed into a thousand different threads. Unwilling to admit that anything not fated could happen to the *them,* of all goddesses, the Fates came up with a scheme to explain it to the other gods - especially Athena (the girl's pseudo-mother) and Zeus. So they decided she would be led towards doing something which would cause her to be punished with a thousand lives - one for each thread.
No. I don't think I will write all thousand. But yes! I do already have the last one plotted out. I intend to write the last ten sometime in the next year. I'd hate to make any fans I might someday have angry with me if I croaked unexpectedly. At least I do have plots and scenes for them already, in case I die tomorrow. Of course, tomorrow I wouldn't have any fans, so it wouldn't matter... Er, that didn't come out quite right.

Only five??? Sigh. Not in any particular order.

1. Illusions, by Richard Bach. It shaped the way I think today.

2. Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut. Does Vonnegut need a reason?

3. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Great American Novel. IMHO.

These three truly are in my top five, not trying to sound pretentious. I have bought multiple copies of these books - pre-Kindle - because I was away from home, my books were packed away, some reason or another. They are books which beg to be re-read.

4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, because when the world goes crazy, you have to be able to laugh. Another book I have read countless times.

and

5. The High King, by Lloyd Alexander. Because it broke my heart every time I finished the series.

When I was in grade school and junior high, I read the Prydain Cycle, the Chronicles or Narnia, and the Dark is Rising series over, and over, and over. Oh, and the Pern books. But the first three, I wore out. It didn't matter how many times I read The High King, I still bawled my head off when I read the ending. Of course, finishing Alexander's Westmark Trilogy was even worse, but I was older by then. His book The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha was my favorite, though. It's why the first book of my series is named The First Two Lives of Brandy Grey. He was, and always will be, my favorite author.