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?

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See me. See me babble. Babble me, babble

[whatawaytoburn]

I go pretty back and forth. There are months where I can use nothing but the keyboard and months where i switch pretty easily between a keyboard and a notebook.

I know when I'm going to school on a regular basis notebooks become a lot easier to work with. I can scribble down notes and parts of stories and then go hoe to type them up.

For a while I used to carry around a role of index cards and write on those. I was really fond of them and the only reason I still don't do it is because I can't find them anymore. I especially liked using them for writing drabbles/one sentence type things.

As for programs, I'm really fond of DarkCopy. I find the minimalist ting works well for me when I'm really trying to get words out. WriteOrDie is another one I am a bit partial to but that's a recent development.

Jumping back to notebooks, I usually have about three on me at any given time. One for ideas one for quotes and one for writing. I'm actually starting to carry around for since there's one particular idea that's been hounding me a lot lately and I wanted to try and keep everything separate for that. I would probably carry more but I know I would receive many a facepalm, so I try and resist.

....Though now I want to try and find a roll of index cards. I sort of really miss doing those, now that I think on them.

Re: See me. See me babble. Babble me, babble

[azuire]

I use index cards quite interchangeably with post-it notes. I somehow like the idea of sticking an idea somewhere, losing it, and then rediscovering it when I'm cleaning my room. Gives me a fresh perspective on things.

WriteorDie is quite good for wordcount goals! I found it indispensable during NaNo.

Re: See me. See me babble. Babble me, babble

[whatawaytoburn]

I used to do post it notes when I stayed in one place a little bit more. Now I'll do random pages inside a notebook, forget what I wrote and come back later. It's the same effect with slightly less chance of me losing things.

Yesss, I would imagine it would be. I'm looking forward to NaNo this year and getting to tr it out.

Re: See me. See me babble. Babble me, babble

[azuire]

I have paperclips, and if I'm very worried about an index card, I staple it to my notebook. unfortunately I have abused this useful trick horribly.