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Mar 17, 2008 4:01:16 GMT -5
Post by naoise on Mar 17, 2008 4:01:16 GMT -5
most of my writing is dreams i have and i sort of wake up and am like WOAH that was awesome. So then I try to write it down. Then I add on later.
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Mar 17, 2008 6:26:42 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 17, 2008 6:26:42 GMT -5
All my writing once filled up my old PC to the point where I couldn't open the documents folder because it was such a heavy file it would crash everything DX
I love writing fanfiction, purely 'cause i'm lazy and it's more fun to write when you don't have to go into massive character descriptions like i do when i'm using original characters.
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Mar 17, 2008 11:54:13 GMT -5
Post by Rick Garcia on Mar 17, 2008 11:54:13 GMT -5
Same here, rosuu. But the computer finally crashed (virus) and I lost everything. *sigh* Now I just keep everything in notebooks.
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Mar 17, 2008 20:34:09 GMT -5
Post by Aindel on Mar 17, 2008 20:34:09 GMT -5
I write everything down on paper, and then type it up afterwards. Not sure when I started that system, but it seems to work for me. Haven't finished anything in a couple years, though. I keep stopping halfway through, and then forget that it ever existed.
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Mar 17, 2008 23:31:32 GMT -5
Post by misaki on Mar 17, 2008 23:31:32 GMT -5
I like writing by hand, but my hand gets tired, and then I always forget to type things up afterward.
I have the problem of writing up all the interesting bits of a story and then moving on to the next without filling in all the leftover parts so as to actually complete the story. D:
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Mar 18, 2008 4:37:40 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 18, 2008 4:37:40 GMT -5
@misaki: I do that, too.
And I sometimes have bits living in my head for so long that when I do get around to explaining the boring bits I do a shit job of explaining because *I* understand it so well by that point that I don't realise how much I need to spell out.
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Mar 18, 2008 16:41:08 GMT -5
Post by misaki on Mar 18, 2008 16:41:08 GMT -5
Oh man, me too. XD
I did a whole bunch of writing in various classes today. Oh man, I really should upload a page of my "writing" writing so you can see what it looks like. My note handwriting is pristine, but my writing handwriting is completely different. I developed this type of cursive that's extremely difficult to read so that no one can read what I'm writing (like I saw the kid next to me trying to do). Because my mind's creating sentences faster than I can write, the words also end up with a lot of extra little spikes in them so it looks like the word has a lot of undotted 'i's. XD
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Mar 18, 2008 16:56:38 GMT -5
Post by Aindel on Mar 18, 2008 16:56:38 GMT -5
My writing isn't even cursive and it looks like that. Sometimes, it's so bad that even -I- can't read words, and have to rely on the rest of the point to tell me what the hell it says. If it's a rather generic point, I'm in trouble.
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Mar 18, 2008 17:07:44 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 18, 2008 17:07:44 GMT -5
@misaki: my hand always gets tired. i use my macbook even in class to take notes now, cause i can touch type but i'm really slow when it comes to handwriting. i'm doomed for my exams. when i think up the interesting bits, i write them down elsewhere. like, if i'm writing a long story and i know what is going to happen in a later chapter, i give it a random chapter number... like 37. and slowly write up little plans for what will go in every chapter in between. makes writing it all so much more fun ! my hand writing is like hellspawn. even when i try really hard (me trying really hard - see the murphy/clyde picture i posted on the creative board V_V). it's like i'm some kind of deliquent.
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Mar 18, 2008 18:30:35 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 18, 2008 18:30:35 GMT -5
I can write really neatly when necessary, but when taking notes or writing a story I write really quickly and no one can read it. My friend wanted to read one of my stories and I had to sit there beside him telling him what words were, and I had difficulty with some of them ^_^
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Mar 18, 2008 20:29:51 GMT -5
Post by misaki on Mar 18, 2008 20:29:51 GMT -5
rosuu: I don't use chapters in my stories, just line breaks. I'm not sure why. XD No matter how bad anyone's handwriting is, no one can beat my dad's. He gave me a present once with my name written on it (Rachel) and I thought it said Teddy (our dog). The last time he sent me a birthday card, I spent about half an hour trying to figure out what he'd written. And never succeeded. XD Anyway, here's my sample: normal vs. private handwriting XD My "don't spy on me" writing isn't that hard to read when you actually try, I guess. XD
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Mar 18, 2008 23:37:18 GMT -5
Post by naoise on Mar 18, 2008 23:37:18 GMT -5
learn to write mirrored like Leonardo Davinci!
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Mar 19, 2008 2:11:31 GMT -5
Post by starvingartist on Mar 19, 2008 2:11:31 GMT -5
"Good Omens" --Terry Pratchett, "Love in the Time of Cholera" --Gabriela Garcia Marquez, and "The Portrait of Dorian Grey" --Oscar Wilde are all on Clover's list already...
Non Fiction "Peacekeeper" - Major-General Lewis MacKenzie "What We Knew" - Eric A. Johnson "The Year of Living Biblically" - A. J. Jacobs
Fiction "The Historian" - Elizabeth Kostova "A Room of One's Own" - Virginia Woolf (+5 points to anyone who laughs when they read it) "Emma" - Jane Austen "Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bronte "Blindness" and "Seeing" - Jose Saramego "Ten Thousand Lovers" - Edeet Ravel "If On a Winter's Night A Traveller" - Italo Calvino
Folks in General Diana Gabaldon Robin McKinley Neil Gaiman
[EDIT: Another example of my inability to note when I accidentally end up on the first page of a topic...o_0]
That's actually quite nice writing, the "private" stuff. Mine's chicken scratch no matter what. XD
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Mar 19, 2008 4:41:23 GMT -5
Post by rosuu on Mar 19, 2008 4:41:23 GMT -5
@misaki:
both your handwritings (?!) are gorgeous. damn youuuuuuu. when i have to write legibly, i write in capitals. LIKE THIS. the teachers hate it, but it's either that or not being able to grade my work.
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Mar 19, 2008 5:02:13 GMT -5
Post by alba on Mar 19, 2008 5:02:13 GMT -5
@sa: I liked a Room of One's Own, and I've been meaning to read the Picture of Dorian Gray for ages. My friend gave it to me for my birthday (at the end of January) but I haven't gotten around to reading it. I'm still on the other book he got me, and books for uni, and a couple others. ...
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