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Tools of the Trade
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magicnoire and shadawyn have really interesting lists about what tools they use while writing/editing, so I thought I would join in, because, well, it's interesting to see how writers do what they do.
So here's my list.
Tools of the Trade:
1) Notebooks. I have about four of these, one for each project I'm working on (Seasons, Dreams, Wings and Treaty). I'm contemplating adding one more for OTSOA, which will not stop eating my brain, but we'll see. I use my notebooks for everything while writing, because I refuse to write on my work computer (I got fired from a job for that, once upon a time, and will NEVER make that mistake again), so my notebooks are a jumble of notes, scenes, character sketches and dialogue snippets that come to me at work.
2) Pens. Random lovely pens, in all shades of the rainbow. I love pens. I love to write out longhand, using different colors to show telepathy (I have yet to write a book that does not have some form of telepathy.) and thoughts. Silly, yes. But fun.
3) Merlin, my laptop. I adore my laptop - he's a 4-year-old Gateway that doesn't connect to the Internet and has only one game on him, so he's good to take places. I use him when the Internet becomes too addictive, or when I go to my treatments (because it's easier to type on a computer keyboard with an IV in my arm than it is to write on a notepad).
4) My desktop. Who does not have a name, which disturbs me. Although I did just inherit her from hubby in October, so I have an excuse. Must think of a name for her. She's a 5-year-old Dell and I adore her as well. I do all my editing on my desktop, although I print my pages out first and mark them up extensively. (which reminds me, I need to get to Kinko's and print out the new CG to go over.)
No Neo, although I'm pondering one. Either that or a Palm, since I need to finally ditch my DayPlanner (I'm growing out of it). Can you use the Neo or the Dana as a planner too?
magicnoire and shadawyn have really interesting lists about what tools they use while writing/editing, so I thought I would join in, because, well, it's interesting to see how writers do what they do.So here's my list.
Tools of the Trade:
1) Notebooks. I have about four of these, one for each project I'm working on (Seasons, Dreams, Wings and Treaty). I'm contemplating adding one more for OTSOA, which will not stop eating my brain, but we'll see. I use my notebooks for everything while writing, because I refuse to write on my work computer (I got fired from a job for that, once upon a time, and will NEVER make that mistake again), so my notebooks are a jumble of notes, scenes, character sketches and dialogue snippets that come to me at work.
2) Pens. Random lovely pens, in all shades of the rainbow. I love pens. I love to write out longhand, using different colors to show telepathy (I have yet to write a book that does not have some form of telepathy.) and thoughts. Silly, yes. But fun.
3) Merlin, my laptop. I adore my laptop - he's a 4-year-old Gateway that doesn't connect to the Internet and has only one game on him, so he's good to take places. I use him when the Internet becomes too addictive, or when I go to my treatments (because it's easier to type on a computer keyboard with an IV in my arm than it is to write on a notepad).
4) My desktop. Who does not have a name, which disturbs me. Although I did just inherit her from hubby in October, so I have an excuse. Must think of a name for her. She's a 5-year-old Dell and I adore her as well. I do all my editing on my desktop, although I print my pages out first and mark them up extensively. (which reminds me, I need to get to Kinko's and print out the new CG to go over.)
No Neo, although I'm pondering one. Either that or a Palm, since I need to finally ditch my DayPlanner (I'm growing out of it). Can you use the Neo or the Dana as a planner too?
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You can read about the two different models here.
I personally went with the Neo because I'm more attracted to the battery life (700 hours, holds about 200 pages of text, which is more than I'll ever need) than the bells and whistles (Dana has Palm, backlight, wifi, memory and application expansions, but only about 20 hours of life). I wanted something for writing. Not for writing and everything else. I have a laptop for that :)
Plus, it's a pretty big planner, although I carry my Neo almost everywhere, so it's not a long shot you'd carry your Dana everywhere :D
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