Writing in public

[ColtonWrites]

I do a lot of my writing while commuting (I have a 90 minute train ride each way). Does anyone else write in public? Do you take precautions to keep people from seeing?

I tend to handwrite and transcribe later. I write in cursive, too. So if you can read my notebook, you have to be trying, and I feel like if you see something inappropriate that's on you. But yesterday I ended up sharing a table with a high school student and that gave me enough pause to switch to a different (non-erotic) project.

 

[cw5523729]

I do a lot of my writing while commuting (I have a 90 minute train ride each way). Does anyone else write in public? Do you take precautions to keep people from seeing?

I tend to handwrite and transcribe later. I write in cursive, too. So if you can read my notebook, you have to be trying, and I feel like if you see something inappropriate that's on you. But yesterday I ended up sharing a table with a high school student and that gave me enough pause to switch to a different (non-erotic) project.

I don't but if someone is being that nosy to see what you're writing, especially freehand, then it should be you that is taking offense, not them. Watching porn on a laptop in public isn't cool but you can't be offended by what someone else is writing or typing unless you yourself are the problem.

eta: unless you're 90 years old and using a font of size 128 on your laptop so that the word FUCK could be visible from low Earth orbit

 

[R0xyfoxy]

after I join here and read some stories I have wanted to write some of my own. But is hard to find the time to do it. But the idea of getting a laptop at the beach and let my mind run wild for hours and write non stopping is the ideal place that I always have. I have always seen my self when I am old and alone and kids have made their life writing from my own personal life my stories, also in the stories adding things that I would love to had happen and stories with twist and turn. I think is very sexy to write outside and just like you said if you look is your problem you are no telling them to look.

 

[StillStunned]

I've suggested this before. Obviously it doesn't work if you're using pen and paper, but on a laptop you can split the screen of your document, then write in large letters "THE STORY OF THE SNOOPING COMMUTER". Then just type your story in the other screen.

 

[cw5523729]

I've suggested this before. Obviously it doesn't work if you're using pen and paper,

You could write in huge letters, in Sharpie, at the top of the page "MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS"

 

[R0xyfoxy]

You could write in huge letters, in Sharpie, at the top of the page "MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS"

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

I do a lot of my writing while commuting (I have a 90 minute train ride each way). Does anyone else write in public? Do you take precautions to keep people from seeing?

I tend to handwrite and transcribe later. I write in cursive, too. So if you can read my notebook, you have to be trying, and I feel like if you see something inappropriate that's on you. But yesterday I ended up sharing a table with a high school student and that gave me enough pause to switch to a different (non-erotic) project.

Yes. At a coffee shop, I lock down that corner table if I can.

If you’re on train, maybe distract with a movie playing on a phone alongside your notebook on the table. If you didn’t have earbuds though, and I was sitting next to you, I’d know you were writing porn!

 

[iwatchus]

I occasionally write in my office at school. I have had students walk into the office unannounced and quickly swapped to other things on my screen.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

In public I will write on my phone, but it just comes naturally to keep people from seeing what's on your phone.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I write in a sports bar I hang out in sometimes. Never really worry about people I don’t know looking over my shoulder. I do close my laptop when I go to the bathroom, but otherwise, I don’t worry about it.

 

[StillStunned]

Or... we should all print this out and stick it on our laptops:


Let people know we're not ashamed of what we do!

 

[iwatchus]

I'm very close to that. I don't actually want to rub it in people's faces, but I'm very close to not caring either. I have't quite been able to tell my mother what I write. And I do not want to make my students feel uncomfortable. And I have a niece I like who might disapprove. Beyond that, I don't care who knows any more.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Or... we should all print this out and stick it on our laptops:

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Let people know we're not ashamed of what we do!

They should sell stickers, use the money for server upgrades! They'd probably sell...a dozen or so....

 

[TheLobster]

I've suggested this before. Obviously it doesn't work if you're using pen and paper, but on a laptop you can split the screen of your document, then write in large letters "THE STORY OF THE SNOOPING COMMUTER". Then just type your story in the other screen.

Assuming someone actually wrote it, and the commuter snooped on an erotic story, would that qualify into E/V?

 

[Kelliezgirl]

Assuming someone actually wrote it, and the commuter snooped on an erotic story, would that qualify into E/V?

First comment:

"I read the story before you posted it, and the rough draft was much better...."

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

I occasionally write in my office at school. I have had students walk into the office unannounced and quickly swapped to other things on my screen.

No close calls with the screen share?

 

[YmaOHyd]

I'll write in public if I can guarantee there's no one behind or right next to me. 's why back row, window is my go-to seat on planes.

 

[calmlikeabomb]

I mostly write in my office or on the car ride home. I'm lucky that I have my own cabin and my screen faces away from the door. On good days, when I keep my team busy, I can get about 6-7K words down.

And truth be told, it's fucking hot, that I am writing naughty stories while the office buzzes around me..

 

[calmlikeabomb]

I occasionally write in my office at school. I have had students walk into the office unannounced and quickly swapped to other things on my screen.

Same!

 

[MillieDynamite]

The under-18 rule only applies to what you write, not who you are around! LOL

 

[ColtonWrites]

Assuming someone actually wrote it, and the commuter snooped on an erotic story, would that qualify into E/V?

I've got the first few lines of a story like that in my head but not sure where it would go.

 

[iwatchus]

The under-18 rule only applies to what you write, not who you are around! LOL

My students, at least, are mostly well over 18.

 

[iwatchus]

I've got the first few lines of a story like that in my head but not sure where it would go.

If I was writing it, it would start an interesting conversation, which could lead to other things.

 

[iwatchus]

No close calls with the screen share?

I can three finger swipe between desktops. I have one for school stuff and one for personal stuff (like lit).

I have learned to very careful what screen is up before I share my screen to the class. And yes I learned the hard way. A few students did notice something on the screen before I swapped and gave me grief about it.

 

[cw5523729]

They should sell stickers, use the money for server upgrades! They'd probably sell...a dozen or so....

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