azuire: (on writing)
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] pipisafoat 2010-06-29 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
In high school (it was a boarding school for science and math nerds), my friend decorated her door with sticky notes and let people write funny quotes on them. With the amount of sleep deprivation going on in that school, there were lots of ridiculous things being said. YAY STICKY NOTES!

Also, I much prefer APA formatting. I even like Chicago better than MLA. Chicago is pretty much exclusively used in history, though. Some English profs give us the choice between APA and MLA - they tend to be my favorites. Pointless opinions: I have them.