TNT 1: Notebooks galore

[azuire]

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 :-)

Comments

[so_wordy]

hey crasher! :D

I'm the same way with journals. I have so many: one for a novel - which I was supposed to strictly write in for that...but I stopped, one personal, one for notes/creatively explicit, and another that's new! Oi.

Agreed! I can't write for extended periods of time. I hold the pen too tight--is that what you do? My hand cramps up and then I'm shot.

Carpal tunnel doesn't help either (especially when it flares up). I can't write when wearing a brace, but I can still type!

[thorarosebird]

Heeeeyyy, I'm so glad my notifications worked! :P

Oh I have dozens and dozens. I'm always wasting money on fancy ones and thinking THIS IS GOING TO BE MY BEST WORK but it never is. XD I got a really nice one for my birthday earlier in the month and it's like a moleskine and it has a lil pocket in the back for loose papers. :3 I ruined it already by writing rubbish on the first page. Oh well!

I think so. I hold it too near the nib or something. And doesn't it have something to do with what pen you use? Sometimes my handwriting's lovely, but with other pens (I can only imagine it's the pens' fault) it's really cramped and untidy. :(

I don't think I've ever had carpal tunnel. *touches wood* Except when I played a lot of badminton in school! What is it exactly? Is it painful? :(

[so_wordy]

Yay! And the same thing happens to me with the "best work" thing. *crosses everything out* You can always take an exacto knife to the binding and cut that one page out. I might do that to one of my journals (especially if it's only a few pages).

I just mimed holding a pen. Yeah, I hold it very close to the nib. Any other way just feels awkward for me. Haha, silly pens.

Carpal tunnel is when a nerve gets pinched in the wrist [or as wiki puts it "The canal is narrow and when any of the ten long flexor tendons passing through it swells or degenerates, the narrowing of the canal often results in the median nerve getting entrapped or compressed]. It can develop from injury or age (how I got it, I don't know). Often enough it causes a tingling sensation, hand falling asleep, or mostly commonly for me, a dull aching pain. On rare occasions my wrist will just give out - the muscle spasms and I drop whatever I'm holding. Good thing I haven't broken anything yet!

When I first got this in May '09, I thought I broke my wrist. It felt swollen and I was in so much pain. Thank goodness it's not nearly as bad anymore!

[thorarosebird]

I'd be scared to do that, I might cut ALL the binding XD

Ouch! That sounds so painful. :( I think I had it when I played badminton then, because my wrist used to tingle a bit if I played for ages, but it never came back.

You said you had a brace for it? At least that gives it some support? :)