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azuire ([personal profile] azuire) wrote in [community profile] inkstains2010-06-29 09:06 pm
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TNT 1: Notebooks galore

Good evening everyone (at least, it's evening where I am). Hope you're all well. Welcome to the first Tips and Tricks column! All future entries will be searchable by the "tips and tricks" tag. Members, if you have an idea for a TNT discussion, feel free to PM it to us!

Allons-y!

I like to scribble. My current notebook has several pages that go on in messy longhand. When I was younger, I had my own typewriter and used that to hammer out my work. But to share writing on the internet, I have to type it on my computer, and for this I use OpenOffice: it has very convenient folders. I sometimes use WordPad if I'm in a hurry. I don't like Microsoft Word because it continually eats my work (and corrects my spelling). Recently a friend of mine bought Liquid Story Binder, and I saw another explaining how to use yWriter. Both seem very satisfied with their respective writing programs. So, what do you think about these programs? Which one(s) do you use? And where do you prefer to write, in notebooks, or on keyboards?

Share away :-)
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[personal profile] so_wordy 2010-06-29 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It's very hard for me to leave the house without something to record my daily thoughts in. Inspiration comes from all places.

For notes and half-baked ideas, I enjoy a pen & paper. I have a writing journal from 2003 that is scarecely used, but that doesn't stop me from scribbling ideas and doodling in the margins! This collective place is ideal because I can go back and search/refine concepts later.

I use a computer often, mostly for posting, but also in the actual writing stage as well. I can type quicker than I write (longhand), but I sometimes find that typed drafts are less vibrant then their handwritten bretheren. Formatting poetry is a nightmare via Word2007, but is has to be done!

Ideally I'll do anything I can by hand. If I hit a creative oil sprig, then I'll type it out (because I'll forget it all too quickly). But I agree with mercredi, there's a certain satisfaction in penning something by hand. My writing also changes according to my mood, so I visually see the emotion I was feeling during the time a piece was written. It's always cool to look back on.

Oh, but I'd secretly love a typewriter.
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[personal profile] pipisafoat 2010-06-29 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It's very hard for me to leave the house without something to record my daily thoughts in.

I love the pocket-sized composition notebooks for that, usually. Unless I'm going, say, for a walk in the woods, then I just take a full notebook and carry it and sit down and BAM! words on a page. I've been known to leave myself long voicemails when I've been driving and unable to stop and write, but then my phone service changed the way it did voicemail, so now I have to leave myself long private-locked voice posts on LJ, haha.
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[personal profile] so_wordy 2010-06-29 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
When I carry my giant purse of doom *shakes*, I throw in my journal for kicks. I was so upset on Sunday because I brought said purse, but forgot the journal--at work, for seven hours, without a place to write on break *head desk*.

Otherwise I usually use the notes app on my phone (or voice recorder when I'm driving =X).

Voiiicemails! Why didn't I think of that?? You are awesome!
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[personal profile] pipisafoat 2010-06-29 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I could use the notes app but I am not speedy with it and it doesn't take much to fill a note :(

I AM AWESOME. I am very awesome. I am so awesome, I have to be careful not to explode.
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[personal profile] mercredigirl 2010-06-29 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
use a computer often, mostly for posting, but also in the actual writing stage as well. I can type quicker than I write (longhand), but I sometimes find that typed drafts are less vibrant then their handwritten bretheren. Formatting poetry is a nightmare via Word2007, but is has to be done!

I don't write poetry but AMEN to all of this!
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[personal profile] pipisafoat 2010-06-29 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
All Word drives me nuts. I mean, I can handle my own version - I sort of have to; professors are forever wanting papers emailed to them in Word format - but I hope every day that nothing ever happens to it, because I don't know that I could survive the upgrade. Not if what's on the Windows computers is anything like what my next version would have to be. NO THANK YOU.
[I have Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac]
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[personal profile] so_wordy 2010-06-30 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
Such things exist? I had no idea!!

I'll look into it for giggles. My cousin is going to build me a computer soon so I can finally have a desktop that works. Storing all my music and writing will be a dream!!