Do you always use the computer to write?
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- Terri2
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Do you always use the computer to write?
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- Linda
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oh and everything I write I do by hand unless I know I'll have to submit it to a teacher later and they'll need a printed copy.
i like seeing cross outs and original ideas and then being able to also see the final product and how different it is.
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- DuchessAngel37
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Then when I hit a spot where I got nothing left to say, I stop. Some time later I'll get around to typing it all up, which sometimes gets me back in that zone where I was before and I can keep going. Sometimes I'll be able to keep going right on the computer, but that's pretty rare.
Like Linda, I like seeing things crossed out. Even though not a lot of time is passing between the writing and the typing, I like seeing what I originally wrote, because maybe by the time I'm typing, I want to use the stuff I crossed out instead of the stuff I replaced it with.
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- Hippykitty
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Recently, I've begun to make use of Word's Outline function. This really helps to structure a piece of writing, but the jury's still out concerning whether the end result is too schematic.
I love the ease, the absence of writer's cramp which writing on a laptop gives me. Wouldn't want to return to my spider scrawl, or bashing an old typewriter.
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Also, don't tell anyone, but I can't freakin' spell anymore because I've become lazy and allow the computer to do too much thinking for me. That is a serious problem that comes from long hours of writing on the computer. It's like using a calculator all the time, eventually you will forget how to do math.
For short stories, paper might work ok, but all things considered, if you want to write a full length novel, you really should try to work on the computer. There's just not enough time for anything else.
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- awelker
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Toni Stauffer wrote:Sometimes I'll jot down ideas on a legal pad and even write a rough draft of a story, but I type 100 words per minute and it is a lot faster than my writing. Besides, I hate the hand cramp that hand writing gives me.
i hate thehand crampping. i get it all the time when i am in school. i will go from my college composition class right to mythology where we do an enormous amount of writing as well.
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- Linda
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And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me"
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