5 July check-in

[anehan]

Poll #11047 5 July check-in

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

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What did you do today?

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Wrote.
4 (40.0%)

Edited.
0 (0.0%)

Sent to beta.
0 (0.0%)

Posted.
0 (0.0%)

Plotted.
4 (40.0%)

Researched.
2 (20.0%)

Something else.
1 (10.0%)

Don't ask.
3 (30.0%)

How do you feel about it?

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Absolutely amazing!
1 (10.0%)

All right.
3 (30.0%)

Could be worse.
4 (40.0%)

It is worse.
2 (20.0%)

Want to hide.
0 (0.0%)

Let's talk about the technical details of writing.

1) What do you use to write your fics? Is it pen and paper for you, or do you prefer a Word/other word processor document? Or perhaps you are a devoted user of Scrivener.

2) How do you keep your research in order. Do you just bookmark web pages? Do you make notes? Do you save clips to a writing software?

Comments

[linaewen]

I haven't voted yet because I've done nothing, but there's still time to redeem myself if I get cracking. ;-)

I use pen and paper from time to time, usually when I am somewhere without a computer and want to write down an idea or get a few paragraphs down while the Muse is active. My main work goes into Jarte, which is a word processor that uses Wordpad but gives you lots of nice features like tabs and the ability to run on a flash drive. I have my writing folders organized for each of my projects, and Jarte is set to find that main folder every time, so that makes it easy to have what I need at my fingertips.

My research is collected as documents in folders, but I also do things the old fashioned way, with printed pages of research and outlines in paper folders, for those times when I am away from my computer and want to do a little plotting. I have web pages bookmarked, but I also take notes from them for specific info I need and keep it in the assigned folder. I used to use a program that saved clips but it became obsolete, so I just copy and paste into an open Jarte document and save links and info that way.

[snowynight]

I write on online word counter to make sure that I have a certain number of words goal reached. As I'm a lazy person, I just bookmark material I think worth researching.

[boeserhimmel]

I got completely discouraged yesterday because I tried writing flashfic for a challenge and lost motivation halfway through. So I didn't really write (only typed up what I had on paper) and only plotted a bit for a different fic.

I am a huge fan of my thousands of notebooks. So I write a lot by hand. Write or Die has long since been a favourite online application (and now program) of mine but I recently also discovered Scrivener which is absolutely perfect for practically everything. I am so in love with that program.
Regarding research... I do way too little of that and then take notes.

[waterfall8484]

I'm another notebook lover, although I usually write with pencil and paper, as I'm very fussy... I'm currently just using a shabby notebook and a ballpoint pen though; I got it at a conference and wrote all kinds of non-conferency stuff in it.

Since I write mostly drabbles I don't really research much. I had to figure out some dates/ages recently though, and I just wrote them down in my notes before I started the fic.

[lilly_c]

Yesterday I finished chapter 1 of my goal fic and I also have around 900 words of plot for chapter 2 now. Most of the outline for chapter 2 just hit me and I stayed up really late to finish typing it up. At the moment I'm thinking about getting a beta for it.

I use pen and paper for most of my fics, it helps me to have something to work with. I mainly use Jarte because I can change the background colour (a very important feature for me), sometimes I'll use Scrivener but I'm not loving the program at all I feel like I've wasted £30 (that I can't really afford to waste just now).

I usually write the important bits of research in the back of my notebook so that I can flick to it when I need that info. Sometimes I'll bookmark web pages but only if it's for something I don't already know or won't need to use for a while.