How do you write?

I've done BOTH. Handwritten notes can save ur ass in a Copyright suit.
My PC stuff, gets backed up to a spare HD I have.
I print out now & then too.

 

Computers are just too easy. I think I'd give up writing real quick if it was a thing of convenience.

 

well i'm not much of a writer either way but i have no particular preference. that is, i like using the computer but if i'm in the other room and someone else is out here and i don't want my thought obliterated by having to deal with them, pen and paper works just as well.

i'm not where i can afford to have a computer in every room and all of them on some sort of local network. not yet anyway.

i don't have a palmtop either, to carry arround in my pocket, and i suspect, it would probably be easier to write on paper then try to do anything serious on one of them.

though that would also be fun. if i lived out in the boonies and i could take a laptop with me and go sit on a nice flat rock somewhere with it that would be great. but i don't, much as i would prefer to.

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My handwriting is so horrible. I type much faster.

 

It depends on where I am. If I am on the back porch I like to use a pencil and paper. When I do that I just but down the idea outline and trust that I can fill them in later. It usually works as I have trained myself to select the outline that can be filled in.

Inside I prefer the computer. I use the same technique of gleaning ideas and getting them into a 'shape' but I am more robust, wordy, about it on the computer.

The computer definitely has changed the writing process for me. At first I did not like it, but it did not take long for me to be right at hme with it.

 

yea

 

Paper, paper, paper. It's got so much more history to it. The greatest works of anything were always put down on paper first. That's the way it should be done.

 

I always put my ideas down on paper when they hit me. But there are obvious benefits to using a computer. When I do type something that comes to me, I write it down too, or make sure to print it out. There is still a part of me that doesnt fully trust technology, so I like to be able to go back to my notebooks.

 

I type it straight and post it straight away (referring to my blog here)

I find I cant write anything down by hand - seem to have some kind of mental block about it.

 

I can't write by hand. I find that I get cramp too quickly, and I can't write my ideas down. By the time the cramp goes, I've forgotton what I was ment to write.

I suppose shorthand would help.

 

my stuff is all by hand. i like it better that way. it's more private.

 

Depends on where I am. If I have the computer, I'll use it. If I'm elsewhere, I usually have a college rule notebook to write longhand, then transfer it to computer at a later time so somebody else can tell what the hell I wrote. Both work for me creatively since I'm so used to using both, though computer does break the flow a bit since I'm always having to correct the spelling of my dyslexic figners.

 

computer by far

I have super shitty handwriting, and my hand cramps easy from writing

 

I use semaphore flag signals and video it.
I began by translating the entirety of "War and Peace" into semaphore
as it really seemed to suit the medium.
I only use the computer when I am at work or posting in forums or browsing the web.
My own work has been critically acclaimed as being a masterpeice of the semaphoric world as I use the waving of the flag itself to express emotions such as rage etc.
I dont understand why anyone would use computers or pen and paper anymore
If anyone else wants to try I suggest you start by translating "Wuthering Heights" into semaphore.
A friend of mine coded the entire works of T.S.Elliot into a German WW2 Enigma machine.

 

I nearly always use the computer then I can go back and change what I want, if I'm out I use a note book then it goes on the computer when I get in
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My PC occasionally goes bonkers with a hardware problem. Specifically, it starts throwing in about a hundred line feeds per second, and just goes bananas until I shut it off, causing me to lose everything since my last file save. So, I do a lot of file saves, since I'm too cheap to replace the hardware.

Other than that, I type one hell of a lot faster than I write longhand. If we were still in the era of typewriters, where it's a problem to correct a typo once it's on the page, I might prefer longhand. Right now, typing on line is the obvious way to go for me.

 

Good for a laugh! You're just trying to see if we're awake out here.

 

When I write songs or something short like that I use a pen in either a notebook or my sketchbook. But for long stuff the computer.

 

Most of the time, I type. But if there's no computer around and I have an idea, I would definitely use pen and paper.

 

Easily portable and pencil, pink eraser, and school child sharpener.

Pencil Type : Black Warriors usually.

I usually have about 4 notepads going, each for different things.