I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—

William ,'Conversations with Dead People'


The Great Write Way  

A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.


Connie Neil - Jan 02, 2005 4:52:29 pm PST #9160 of 10001
brillig

Connie, did you get my return e? I couldn't open the file because for some reason my computer can't "find" Notepad. No idea what that's about.

Yes, I did, and I sent--I think--a reply with a Word6 file from my WordPad.


Amy - Jan 02, 2005 4:56:08 pm PST #9161 of 10001
Because books.

Just got it, connie! I'll read it now.


Lyra Jane - Jan 02, 2005 5:01:19 pm PST #9162 of 10001
Up with the sun

Fuck the person who tells me what to feel. But I am curious about what they feel.

This, and I also want to know *why* they feel what they feel. I have a hard time explaining my opinions sometimes; I read criticism in part to enhance the vocabulary of my mind.

As for what to write in ... I have a composition book that I'm using to do writing exercises, and I think it frees my brain a little. Though of course, if I ever do anything worth keeping in there, I'll have to retype it (I can't handwrite more than a page or three before my hand starts to kill me), and that's never fun.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2005 5:06:52 pm PST #9163 of 10001
What is even happening?

I like white, college-ruled legal pads. I get weird about pretty little journals, too, and I always try to make them for something specific, like only for ideas about one particular project, but it never works and I wind up writing grocery lists and odd snatches of other things, too.

I bought one for my dh, and each of my kids this Christmas, but as a gift with a twist. I wrote on the first page that it was a Give Back Book. They had to give it back to me, as soon as they read page one. Throughout the year, I will use the journals to write to or about each of them. Next Christmas, they'll get what I've written as a present.

And I thunked it up, all by myself.

(Now let's just see if I do it.)


Amy - Jan 02, 2005 5:10:23 pm PST #9164 of 10001
Because books.

t not really here, since I'm copyediting like a good girl

Throughout the year, I will use the journals to write to or about each of them.

I love this idea! When Jake was a baby, I started a Mother's Day journal, where every Mother's Day I was going to write about him, and being a mom, and what we'd learned or done or laughed about together.

It didn't last long. Then I thought I would do the same on each of the kids' birthdays. That didn't work out so well, either. Which was kind of why I decided to do the New Year's summary, for lack of a better word, about the family as a whole, but it's not very personal.

I resolve to try this again! Birthday books for each of the kids! (If you do yours, I'll do mine...)

t /not really here, since I'm copyediting like a good girl


erikaj - Jan 02, 2005 5:10:51 pm PST #9165 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

that's a great idea, Cindy.


deborah grabien - Jan 02, 2005 5:13:05 pm PST #9166 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Connie, mine got here as a plain text attachment consisting of a few odd heiroglyphic squiggles, and nothing else. Wanna read, damn it.

No notebooks for me. I'm a computer writer, the same way I used to be a typewriter writer. I'll make notes in passing, or if I'm away from the computer, research notes and just sensations that will find their way in to the book eventually, but not prose.

These days, even if I did write that way, my ms-ridden wrists wouldn't allow it. Typing's just way easier and I write very quickly, a state of work for which the speed of the computer is a humongous plus.


Topic!Cindy - Jan 02, 2005 5:15:29 pm PST #9167 of 10001
What is even happening?

Thanks, erika.

I resolve to try this again! Birthday books for each of the kids! (If you do yours, I'll do mine...)

I was going to be more structured about it, like Scott on Mondays, Ben on Tuesdays, etc., but then I knew it would feel like a chore. I do write about them each from time to time though, and think to write more, but sometimes, the subjects are too personal to them to post on the web. So, I figured now, I have a place to put it. Let's hope next Dec. 24, I'm not trawling through my own LJ, looking for something to desperately copy into the journals. *g*


erikaj - Jan 02, 2005 5:18:05 pm PST #9168 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

The wife's speed awes me, as I've written many times, the inner Munchkin wants me to say I uh, make it up in stamina. But in every other way, Deb is me here. I sometimes miss the productive-sounding clicking of typewriters, too.


Ginger - Jan 02, 2005 5:24:13 pm PST #9169 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I have trouble handwriting a grocery list, much less anything longer. I've been writing directly on a keyboard since I was 16, which makes it upwards of 30 years now. I can't be creative writing by hand, because I practically have to think about making every letter, unless I'm making the messy, cryptic notes I take during interviews for articles. If I'm interviewing over the phone, I take the notes on the keyboard. I hated handwriting when I was a kid, and the last D I made was when they still graded handwriting. The day my parents gave me a typewriter was a great day.