How's this for writing?
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 02:54
No. 24869
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Fountain pens are neat. This is a Pilot Metropolitan that I picked up for like eighteen bucks. Better than any fucking ballpoint I've ever had.
What's your favourite writing tool? Alternately, talk about writing or whatever. There's no boundaries here, man.
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 03:31
No. 24875
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I had a dream last night in which I was unable to clearly reproduce a single word on neat, lined paper by any means of pen or pencil; so feeble were my attempts, and utterly illegible. I suspect it is not far from the truth, but I have not had cause to attempt it in many months.
I should clean my keyboard; it's got crumbs in it.
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 03:42
No. 24877
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>unable to reproduce a single word
easy THP joke.txt
I hate pencils for writing. I get their utility, but I still dislike how they feel, both tactilely and the result on paper. Mechanical pencils are okay at best. Wood pencils can sod off entirely.
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 10:31
No. 24895
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I don't really use pencils very often anymore. When I do write on paper, I usually use cheap pens. I find it satisfying to take notes down on paper and it's easy to draw lines or do little side lists and whatever on a sheet of paper that connect ideas, sometimes vocab and characters/concepts for the story.
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 11:17
No. 24897
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Same here.
Easier to just use computer yeah, haven't used actual paper for a while now that I think about it.
Think it's cause everyone else encourages it where I'm at since it's more convenient with the auto translate and all that email stuff.
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 15:51
No. 24907
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>>24897
Got a nice keyboard? I thought mechanical keyboards were just a meme until I got one, and holy hell are they nice to type on.
>>24895
I find it's much easier to organise thoughts on paper. Probably the kinaesthetic element of writing. I know I heard somewhere that the act of physically writing something helps retain it better. Not sure how true it is, but it
feels true.
Something satisfying about how directly things flow from your brain onto paper, anyway. Typing's more convenient in procedural terms, but reordering things after the fact is a pain when you can't just draw a circle around something and an arrow pointing to it.
Anonymous 2021/10/05 (Tue) 23:21
No. 24915
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>>24907
>easier to organise thoughts on paper
Just reconfirmed this today. I was discussing story things with someone, and I wanted to get ideas together, so I did a mind map. So much easier on paper.
Anonymous 2021/10/14 (Thu) 06:06
No. 24981
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A random thought that struck me: Not knowing how one's audience understands the story at a given time is a bit of a hindrance to knowing what will be effective and/or what most needs to be conveyed.
Anonymous 2021/10/15 (Fri) 14:16
No. 24989
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>>24981
In theory, there's a sweet spot in between telling people things they already know versus assuming that they know something they really don't, but in practice it's a constantly shifting target. Maybe it can be mitigated by layering your elaborations for different levels of understanding, but at some point you've just got to knuckle down and fire off into the wild blue unknown.
Or I suppose you could pilot things in front of test audiences. But those are a little bit hard to come by.
Anonymous 2021/10/15 (Fri) 14:49
No. 24990
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>>24989
True, it's impossible to account for even a majority of the readers to have the same interpretation of facts, but it's something more fundamental in this case. In the context that such a thought came about, it's more a personal problem of perceiving what someone on the 'outside looking in' can reasonably be presumed to know; I'm only aware of what I know and feel I need to be told explicitly when others don't understand. Without some understanding of where I stand with the audience, decision paralysis sets in quickly and no progress can be made.
