What do you write on?

[sr71plt]

Radio Shack stocks the rub on letters that work great for replacement. Dust it with several light coats of the lacquer that they use for pastel drawings. I keep several sets because i hammer a keyboard hard. Old habit from the manual typewriter days.

Are there still Radio Shacks in business? Ours is now an upscale vegetable market. But thanks for the tip. If I weren't a touch typist, I'd be up the creek.

 

[TxRad]

Are there still Radio Shacks in business? Ours is now an upscale vegetable market. But thanks for the tip. If I weren't a touch typist, I'd be up the creek.

Check on line if you don't have a radio shack. Ours is still doing business. About the only supplier of electronic parts around anymore.

ETA: You might try your local hobby/craft stores. They carry them.

 

[49greg]

I use my ASUS laptop and Libre Office.

I have a piece of masonite cut to size for my laptop to sit on. When I'm reading or writing in bed I put it on an extra pillow on my tummy/chest. Not as fancy, and probably not as good, as the one in the OP, but it is probably easier to stow when it's time for lights out.

 

[NoJo]

I am bummed out no one posted

On the walls with crayon.

Guess that's just me.

I considered it, but thought I'd check the trhread first to see if some else had.

 

[NoJo]

Word on Mac. Good enough. I use outlining a lot.

 

[oggbashan]

desk or table tops only. Never mastered the "lap" part of laptop. I even use a mouse with the laptop.

Do you type so much/fast, though, that the letters wear off a long time before the rest of the machine does? That's a problem I have.

Radio Shack stocks the rub on letters that work great for replacement. Dust it with several light coats of the lacquer that they use for pastel drawings. I keep several sets because i hammer a keyboard hard. Old habit from the manual typewriter days.

I find laptop keyboards annoying. I'm used to a full size keyboard and have been using them since before IBM XTs.

My keyboards wear out from hard use. I don't mind the letters rubbing off. I know where they are, but the keys themselves stop working. I just change to another full size keyboard and I'm ready to go again. I have two spare unused secondhand ones that cost me about £5 each. I could have had even cheaper ones but they wear out in months.

 

[KayceeCharles]

Do you type so much/fast, though, that the letters wear off a long time before the rest of the machine does? That's a problem I have.

Buy a true mechanical keyboard with MX-style keycaps, so you can replace the caps when you need to, or just replace them immediately with wear-resistant PBT keycaps.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Desktop using either Word or yWrite. There is of course a keyboard and mouse attached to the desktop along with speakers for listening to some of my favorite tunes.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Do you type so much/fast, though, that the letters wear off a long time before the rest of the machine does? That's a problem I have.

The only keys that wear out on my keyboard are the W, S, A and D. I have about six keyboards that still work, but those keys are bare naked. And as the keyboard is only $11 at Walmart, why go through the trouble with trying to find key replacements?

 

[NoJo]

The only keys that wear out on my keyboard are the W, S, A and D. I have about six keyboards that still work, but those keys are bare naked. And as the keyboard is only $11 at Walmart, why go through the trouble with trying to find key replacements?

W,S,A,D? What the heck are you typing? Seeing as the frequency order is ETAINSHRDLU, I guess you just have a fat left hand?

 

[oggbashan]

W,S,A,D? What the heck are you typing? Seeing as the frequency order is ETAINSHRDLU, I guess you just have a fat left hand?

That frequency is for general use. Erotica has a different frequency and for some people the right hand is in use elsewhere...

 

[NoJo]

That frequency is for general use. Erotica has a different frequency and for some people the right hand is in use elsewhere...

Lol I guess if you write a story like WE SAW A SAD WAD, SO MANY SAD SAD WADS

 

[Hypoxia]

That frequency is for general use. Erotica has a different frequency and for some people the right hand is in use elsewhere...

Your letter distribution hypothesis can be tested -- run a slew of top-rated LIT stories through a counter. And lefties should wear out the U.I.O.K keys, correct?

As for what I write on: a 13x10.5 inch drawing board (Dietzgen 379B) sits in my lap as I semi-recline in my Steelcase couch, my legs extended. That board diverts heat exhaust away from the old Lenovo ThinkPad X201 plonked atop it. I wore out a few VT-50 and XT-type keyboards in my desktop days but this ThinkPad seems pretty well-inked.

 

[sr71plt]

The only keys that wear out on my keyboard are the W, S, A and D. I have about six keyboards that still work, but those keys are bare naked. And as the keyboard is only $11 at Walmart, why go through the trouble with trying to find key replacements?

Nearly gone on my desktop are the A, S, E, O, and L keys. The P is not too far behind.

Gone on the laptop (only two years old) are the A, S, D, E, and N.

I'm likely too lazy to do much about either. The desktop really should have died a couple of years ago, but it's still hobbling along.

I'm a touch typist. I can't type with only one hand. So I have to take breaks if I want to meld with what I'm typing.

 

[Handley_Page]

To my mind, the Bestest keyboard of them all is the IBM 'cherry' model; sometimes known as the "clanky", because it had a long throw on the widely-spaced keys and featured Cherry switches. There's a version still made and available, but at a frightening price.

As to a Word Proc, I use Word 2003 (docx is a step too far for me). I rather like Word 97, but it's difficult to find these days. But if you cannot lay hands on an old copy,m I can thoroughly recommend "JARTE", which sits on top of the little text editor on Windows (Word Pad). [ www.jarte.com ].
The good news is that its FREE

It saves its files as .RTF but features a few useful additions, including a small, but expandable, dictionary and some Fount control.

I would have put in a pointer to it, but I'm having a few problems with my network access.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

W S A D are usually action keys, walk, run, etc...for a lot of online games using a keyboard.

I use my daughter's HP laptop and I use either google docs or Blogger. I like both of them because they auto save. I've lost so many things on my old netbook that crashed before I started using google.

My preferred method though is pen, a nice bold gel is perfect, on a composition book, but then my friend makes me transfer to online so she can read, so I don't use pen and paper as often as I'd like.


I had a Dell touchscreen laptop that I loved, I fall quickly for inanimate objects, but the damn thing hasn't been working for over a year now. I keep saying I'll fix it, or take it somewhere to see if it's worth being fixed, but neither has happened yet. I really do love it and hope I can get it fixed.

 

[Bramblethorn]

W,S,A,D? What the heck are you typing? Seeing as the frequency order is ETAINSHRDLU, I guess you just have a fat left hand?

For a lot of things, in particular gaming, W=up/forward, A=left, S=down/back, D=right.

I normally write on a laptop connected to a docking station, with a separate keyboard. But when I'm using the laptop's inbuilt keyboard I have a thin plastic cover that protects the keys and prevents dust from getting into the works. I've been using that one... three years? and the keyboard still looks brand new. It does muffle the laptop sound a bit, though.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

For a lot of things, in particular gaming, W=up/forward, A=left, S=down/back, D=right.

I normally write on a laptop connected to a docking station, with a separate keyboard. But when I'm using the laptop's inbuilt keyboard I have a thin plastic cover that protects the keys and prevents dust from getting into the works. I've been using that one... three years? and the keyboard still looks brand new. It does muffle the laptop sound a bit, though.

Last summer our electric was out so I went to the library to use a computer there and I guess I type fast and loud because everyone else in the computer room kept looking at me.
LOL! It was embarrassing!

 

[NoJo]

Ah of course; online games with WASD action keys! Wow that takes me back to the 70s.

Now I use the m key a lot when I have to type mmmmmmm in chats to prove I'm actually turned on by whatever it is the lady on the other end is up to.

 

[redzinger]

For a lot of things, in particular gaming, W=up/forward, A=left, S=down/back, D=right.

I normally write on a laptop connected to a docking station, with a separate keyboard. But when I'm using the laptop's inbuilt keyboard I have a thin plastic cover that protects the keys and prevents dust from getting into the works. I've been using that one... three years? and the keyboard still looks brand new. It does muffle the laptop sound a bit, though.

Daley Thompson's Decathlon - G & H?

#properoldskool

 

[Zeb_Carter]

W,S,A,D? What the heck are you typing? Seeing as the frequency order is ETAINSHRDLU, I guess you just have a fat left hand?

I play a lot of games too. W, A, S, and D are to control your player or any vehicle he is in. W = go forward, S=Stop or go backward, A=move left, D=move right

 

[StrangeLife]

A harpy feather dipped in the cursed blood of sinners drained from their freshly mauled corpses. As medium I prefer the dried skin of virgins flayed alive in their prime... but if there is a sale in Corpseco, I may settle for a few sheets of Harlot Hide (tm) instead.

http://i.imgur.com/Euc0NY9.gif

 

[masterandmargarita]

Google docs for me. I share doc with my wife and she can edit in "suggesting" mode --same as tracking changes in word. We both created alt google accounts just for erotic writing. The amazing thing about google docs is that I can write and edit from my phone while I'm at work, on the train, in a cab, standing in line, etc.

 

[Hypoxia]

In case anyone cares, I may sketch out ideas using Open Office Write on an Android tablet (like now) but I *write* on my ThinkPad using the free Jarte multi-tab text editor with its handy WordWeb dictionary / thesaurus. I'll run the text through Word 2003 (my newest version) for spell-check but I otherwise find Word and other "word processors" too clumsy.

 

[Bandicoot007]

Due to my work schedule I started writing either on my phone or tablet using the Microsoft Word app.

Bandicoot