Fanfic Writers' Virtual Water Cooler

[Princess Awinita]

I have been giving it heavy thought and now think it quite awesome that people still write with a pencil and paper rather than on a computer keyboard.

Its just plain awesome. And if you are able to write more than one word {and keep track of how many words you write on paper rather then with a word count software like OpenOffice or Wordperfect or whateverpeopleusethesedays} It makes it even cooler

So if I mention I can write more than what one writes with pencil/pen on paper, I mean on keyboard, if I were to write on paper what I am trying to write on screen, I'd never be able to make it past 100 words.

Those of you that write with pencil and paper, you guys are far better than I Give yourselves a pat on the back

[Starfist]

I tend to write my rough ideas for stories out on paper.
There is something to be said about the tactile feeling and the scratch of pen on paper.

[Falcon Horus]

When I'm on a roll, my hand can't follow the speed my brain thinks and thus I start forgetting words or contracting words, or simply forget entire sentences... and then nothing makes sense, so I'm a firm believer in the use of software. Unless I'm utterly derived of such device as a computer.

[SaraBahama]

I tend to write my rough ideas for stories out on paper.
There is something to be said about the tactile feeling and the scratch of pen on paper.

Yep. *this*

It also helps when I'm distracted by the interwebz -if I just step away from the computer and start writing with pen & paper, I sometimes get more done.

Sorry I've been gone: Summer is the busy season at the vet's office. Fall is band season (and parents working concessions to earn money for band account) for the kiddo, so I may be in and out until the first freeze. LOL

[Princess Awinita]

First freeze might come sooner than we think....

I still need to firure out how to keep Lemmings tail out of the ice when I reice the ice rink....

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Will you do an extended version as well, and put those words back in? An author's cut as it were...

My rough drafts tend to be lots longer than they need to be (Frost Bites started out something like 16,000 and ended up 8,700) because I often figure out how things work in them (like, what's the crew to passenger ratio for this interstellar cruise ship? How does the ship's day run?). Plus, I find dialog really easy to write and can go on and on with it. So most of it did need to go. I have kept a version with my favorite scene in it, though.

When I'm on a roll, my hand can't follow the speed my brain thinks ...

This is a problem, which is why I tend to switch back and forth. I write in the notebook after I go to bed but before I go to sleep, or when I'm in a waiting room somewhere, then transfer it all to computer later. If there's a computer handy, I might write a scene, note the last line in my notebook and then continue it later in the notebook.

I'm a pretty opportunistic writer, so far as materials are concerned.

Seaboe

[Falcon Horus]

I'm a pretty opportunistic writer, so far as materials are concerned.

And then the napkin gets lost in the washingmachine... yes, that has happened to me.

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

I have slews of pieces of scratch paper from work floating around my house that need to be typed into a snippet file on my computer. My coworkers can't tell note taking from fiction writing during meetings...

Seaboe

[StargateMillennium]

I gotta say, making the weapons has gotta be my favorite part in making the virtual series.

[Princess Awinita]

I gotta say, making the weapons has gotta be my favorite part in making the virtual series.

Indeed, making weapons is indeed fun. Even moreso when its swords and sorcery type of weaponry

[SaraBahama]

And then the napkin gets lost in the washingmachine... yes, that has happened to me.

O.o

[Princess Awinita]

And then the napkin gets lost in the washingmachine... yes, that has happened to me.

Try writing on the wall.... Oh wait I forgot Kate broke you of that habit.. or was that demodery with the wall ? I forget which

[Gatefan1976]

Try writing on the wall.... Oh wait I forgot Kate broke you of that habit.. or was that demodery with the wall ? I forget which

I write on the walls, crayon shows up well on it

[Falcon Horus]

I write on the walls, crayon shows up well on it

Permanent marker too...

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

Just don't take it as far as Alice Flaherty, who has hypergraphia and keeps a wax pencil in the shower so she can write on the walls.

Hmmm. Maybe Princess Awinita has hypergraphia, too.

Seaboe