What's Your Primary Writing Tool?

[Xelebes]

I feign laptops - they sit on your laps, making your lap as numb as your ass while you fidget around to find a surface flat enough to control your mouse on. They're out for me.

Desktops are ok, but only good if I'm writing letters, memos or reports. No good for fiction writing.

Pen and paper for me, please.

 

[graceanne]

Unless the smoke cleared around Zoot long enough for him to pull off a Chicago election night ballot stuffing, two folks did vote chisel and stone but didn't 'fess up. I meant to make the votes public but came up short on the follow-through.

Rumple Foreskin

Well, I'm a died in the wool smart ass. It was really hard to answer you seriously.

And you can see who voted what. YOu just click on the number of votes, and it'll take you to another page that lets you know who voted what.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Well, I'm a died in the wool smart ass. It was really hard to answer you seriously.

And you can see who voted what. YOu just click on the number of votes, and it'll take you to another page that lets you know who voted what.

Bless you, Graceanne. Along with numerous other things, I'd forgotten about the magic click.

The Right Rev Rumple Foreskin http://bestsmileys.com/religous/1.gif

eta: TxRad and Jag. I should have known.

 

[damppanties]

I used to write on my desktop computer. Maybe the reason I haven't been writing anything is because I've relocated and changed to a laptop.

 

[graceanne]

Bless you, Graceanne. Along with numerous other things, I'd forgotten about the magic click.

The Right Rev Rumple Foreskin http://bestsmileys.com/religous/1.gif

eta: TxRad and Jag. I should have known.

LOL I figured they were probably the ones who normally vote like that.

 

[BarondeSade]

Uh...

Well, guess the mind comes first...hopefully followed by the fingers, which sometimes aren't willing to cooperate (depending on alcohol input)...then I hope that they all congregate on the keyboard connected to my desktop…just haven’t found the reason to go to laptop although wife hints at it all the time…

 

[neonlyte]

LappyMac

Couldn't function without it, forgotten how to write longhand though I carry a notebook everywhere for jotting plot thoughts, linkages and odd sights that deserve writing up. Gotten used to using it in cafes this summer... beer, cigar and lappy disguise the scene while I people watch.

 

[buxxxom]

Though I haven't submitted anything in a while , when I do write, it's with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad or spiral composition book. I write on one side of the paper only, and use little shorthand that only I understand to make notes. The changes are made on the opposite side of the paper, in approximately the same location on the page. Typing and editing is done on a desktop. I rarely use the laptop, detestible little thing that it is. I like the full sized keyboard.

It's the scratching sound of the pencil that I love. The only thing that comes close is a perfectly sharpened pencil, or a chalkboard and chalk.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I was listening to an interview with some author who won a big book award, and he said he'd dictated the book using Voice Recognition Software in the morning, then spent the afternoons cleaning up the errors.

I don't know if I could do that. I think I use a completely different part of my brain for writing than I do for speaking. Maybe if I sat there with an on/off switch and composed the sentences first in my head and then spoke them, but I don't think I could "talk" a story.

Has anyone ever tried that?

 

[AllardChardon]

Desktop with an comfy curved and padded full sized keyboard. Sometimes I exceed 100 wpm thanks to paying attention in high school typing class.

Good to see you posting again, Rumple.

 

[buxxxom]

I was listening to an interview with some author who won a big book award, and he said he'd dictated the book using Voice Recognition Software in the morning, then spent the afternoons cleaning up the errors.

I don't know if I could do that. I think I use a completely different part of my brain for writing than I do for speaking. Maybe if I sat there with an on/off switch and composed the sentences first in my head and then spoke them, but I don't think I could "talk" a story.

Has anyone ever tried that?

At one point in my life I recorded books on audiotapes for children. Sort of polar opposites to your idea I suppose, but still in the same vein. It was very difficult speaking in measured tones, easily understood, and without my southern accent. There was more focus on getting the words out there than on the story itself, it seemed at times. If I hadn't read the particular book I was recording before, there was no comprehension of it at all.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

Brain. Memory. Moleskine notebook. Pen.

 

[IsabellaKing]

BLOOD - or laptop, when I'm in a better mood.

 

[CharleyH]

When you write, what do you use most often: a laptop computer, a desktop computer, pen/pencil/quill and paper, dictation, chisel and stone tablet, other?

I came across this question / poll on Absolute Write and wondered how the AH would respond. At AW, over half said they used laptops.

It goes without saying, but won't, that all comments, suggestions, insults, and explanations of why "other" was picked will be, if not exactly welcomed, at least tolerated, probably.

Rumple Foreskin

I responded laptop, but I must say, I do miss my pen - I miss my connection from my hand to my paper, to me.

 

[Edward Teach]

My primary writing tool is my brain, Rev.

So thaaatt's why you don't write more.

 

[tickledkitty]

So thaaatt's why you don't write more.

Right. What's your excuse?

 

[3113]

Laptop. I type much faster than long-hand with a pen, and I love being able to write almost anywhere. I started with pen and paper for that reason because I could write anywhere with it, back in the days when there was only desktop computers and you couldn't haul them with you to coffee houses, cafés, onboard a plane or to hotel rooms.

I did do a lot of writing at the desktop as well in those days, but one laptops arrived I was gazing longingly at them--wanting one...but not until they were sleeker and smaller. Eventually, the laptop arrived that was right for me; I got one and knew right away that there was no going back to the desktop.

I still keep pen and paper for jotting down notes, but it's laptop all the way for me.

 

[Edward Teach]

Right. What's your excuse?

I type slow because I have such BIG hands and stuff.

 

[tickledkitty]

I type slow because I have such BIG hands and stuff.

You haven't submitted anything in two years. Those must be some big ass hands.

 

[bluebell]

I used to write on my desktop computer. Maybe the reason I haven't been writing anything is because I've relocated and changed to a laptop.

And not only that but you've managed to misplace your poor recycle bin. Which means that if you do, by some stroke of luck for the rest of us, compose something and think it's trashy and chuck it, it might just fly off into the universe.
There could be No Rescuing!

Honestly. How could you??? *cries*

Those must be some big ass hands.

Big ass-

http://www.minidonks.com/images/Farrah10-28-03-Rear01a.jpg

hands?
Wait, wait. Where do the hands come in? Farrah wants to know.

 

[sr71plt]

I like to think my primary writing tool is my brain, though I would have to admit, if pressed, there are one or two of my stories that originated a little lower.

Bingo

But to the substance of your question...

PC, either desktop or laptop, depending on the location and what the other one is already busy doing.

 

[lowflykiwi]

Laptop here. Sitting in the front room with a big arse window, so I can see the world go by.

However due to the wireless hub being at the other end of the house and a dicky battery I am wired up so it is almost like a desktop.

The smoke filled coffee lounge sounds so awesome as a writing spot. Would have to get a better battery though.

Hey, I am a computer geek, so it's a bit like a plumbers own plumbing, get by with minimum maintenance

Kiwi

 

[Edward Teach]

Big ass-

http://www.minidonks.com/images/Farrah10-28-03-Rear01a.jpg

hands?
Wait, wait. Where do the hands come in? Farrah wants to know.

Arright now, watch it. Anybody can be a smart...

 

[past_perfect]

I was listening to an interview with some author who won a big book award, and he said he'd dictated the book using Voice Recognition Software in the morning, then spent the afternoons cleaning up the errors.

I don't know if I could do that. I think I use a completely different part of my brain for writing than I do for speaking. Maybe if I sat there with an on/off switch and composed the sentences first in my head and then spoke them, but I don't think I could "talk" a story.

Has anyone ever tried that?

Yes, I have, a few years back. I spent hours reading in keywords and sentences, just to realize that the software wasn't prepared for my accent. The results were simply hilarious, but bore little to no resemblance to what I was actually saying. Could have been the shitty microphone I had been using also.

Am using my desktop computer, as my longhand and shorthand writing has declined dramatically from years of disuse - am pretty happy when I am able to read my shopping lists without mishap.

 

[damppanties]

And not only that but you've managed to misplace your poor recycle bin. Which means that if you do, by some stroke of luck for the rest of us, compose something and think it's trashy and chuck it, it might just fly off into the universe.
There could be No Rescuing!

Honestly. How could you??? *cries*

I don't know.