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TNT 1: Notebooks galore
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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 :-)
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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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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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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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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I AM AWESOME. I am very awesome. I am so awesome, I have to be careful not to explode.
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I don't write poetry but AMEN to all of this!
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[I have Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac]
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Portable typewriters are cheap in the US. I can get you in touch with someone. ;) What say you?
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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!!