What are you writing on/with?

[Anonymous No.12454590]

I piecemealed an old desktop together and installed Linux for the first time. The keyboard is small and loud. There's no internet. The monitor is 1024 by 768. It takes up far too much desk real estate. It's a sad little machine that basically acts as the typewriter I cannot afford and a Sudoku machine.


I love it. What are you writing on?

[Anonymous No.12454654]

that sounds like a very comfy experimental gimmick OP, sounds nice. let me be the one to tell you, however, that nobody here writes. hell, i’ll just go ahead and tell it true. nobody here even reads.

[Anonymous No.12454675]

>>12454654
It’s pretty comfy when I get into the flow. I had been experienenting with fountain pens and different journals for a while, but suddenly I wanted a typewriter because I wanted something faster but no internet. It just so happened that when I was marathoning Mr Robot I decided to figure out how to install a Linux. And now it has an actual use. My apartment is small and very old, so I can feel the bohemian energy when I type in the corner. It’s so hard to unplug though. I’ve had good luck with the 20 second rule. Making things I want to do easily accessible in 20 seconds and things I shouldn’t do more than 20 seconds.

[Anonymous No.12454683]

>>12454675
huh, that is an interesting philosophy of mindfulness. speaking for myself though, the liquor store is more than 20 seconds away from my house, and that’s not yet thwarted me.

[Anonymous No.12454684]

I found a really old Toshiba laptop and installed linux on it.
It’s shit enough to have troubled with youtube, but good enough to have a typing programme open.

[Anonymous No.12454685]

>>12454683
It doesn’t always work. My booze being on the top shelf doesn’t stop me when I want to get pathetically drunk and cry to Scott pilgrim, but it does stop me when I get home from school or work and I know I should be reading or doing something. I hide the controllers, uninstall steam games. I moved the guitar to a little stand next to the couch. It helps. It’s not perfect by any means.

[Anonymous No.12454992]

A keyboard.

Writing software is Google Docs because I alternate between sitting at my desk and lying in bed using my laptop.

>muh internet distractions
I feel you. I use Cold Turkey to block things, but once I've STARTED work I can keep working. It's actually starting that's the hard part for me.

[Anonymous No.12455734]

I'm using Windows 10 with Microsoft Word on a prebuilt PC :)

[Anonymous No.12456780]

>>12454992
>letting google track your every move and word

[Anonymous No.12456815]

>>12454590
I write by candlelight in my empty apartment, with a quill I made from a goose I killed and de-feathered in the park.

[Anonymous No.12456967]

>>12454590
A +10 chaos mechanical switch keyboard with rgb leds
Anything less is for casuals

[Anonymous No.12457000]

>>12454590
I have a typewriter and a laptop, but I always fall back to longhand. I cant write on a laptop because its hard to stare at the screen and think at the same time. I might have to bust out the old typewriter again, eh, Ill fall back to longhand again prolly.

[Anonymous No.12457021]

>all these keyboard plebs
yikerino!
(fountain)Pen and paper ofc

[Anonymous No.12457067]

>>12456815
>not using a superior peacock feather quill

[Anonymous No.12457152]

>>12457000
Nice trips. You should bust out the typewriter and go write on the porch with a nice cup of coffee. I'm jelly, I don't have the money or room for one.

[Anonymous No.12457344]

>>12457152
Holy shit its trips.

Anyway, I bought mine for like 15$. Found a cheap, old, used military one.

The irony is that I am maybe qutting writing. Definitely taking a break.

[Anonymous No.12458041]

>>12457344
How easy is it to maintain an old one like that? Why are you giving up writing anon?

[Anonymous No.12458319]

I write using vi, because it actually takes into account that you're using a computer to write, unlike a WYSIWYG word processor which is trying to pretend otherwise.

>Hints for Preparing Documents<
>Most documents go through several versions (always more than you expected) before they are finally finished. Accordingly, you should do whatever possible to make the job of changing them easy.
>First, when you do the purely mechanical operations of typing, type so subsequent editing will be easy. Start each sentence on a new line. Make lines short, and break lines at natural places, such as after commas and semicolons, rather than randomly. Since most people change documents by rewriting phrases and adding, deleting and rearranging sentences, these precautions simplify any editing you have to do later.
>— Brian W. Kernighan

In vi-like editors this is all done with simple commands, which is what I meant when I say that it's actually using a computer to write. Making lines look pretty is also the computer's job, not yours, so don't worry about the line breaks.

Having said that though I think writing down notes, drafts, etc. on paper would be better than the computer due to the neurological benefits to retention that comes with writing by hand.

[Anonymous No.12458329]

>>12458319
Also, vim text objects are the shit.
https://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-definitive-guide/

>Text objects beginning with a include the surrounding white space in the text object, those starting with i do not. This convention is followed by all text objects.

>The motion w may seem similar to the text object aw. The difference is in the allowed cursor position. For example, to delete a word using dw the cursor must be at the start of the word, any other position would delete only part of the word; however, daw allows the cursor to be at any position in the word.

The same applies for `s` (sentence) and `p` (paragraph).

[Anonymous No.12458389]

>>12458041
Its really simple. The usual problems at least. For the really hard mechanical problems You need an expert.

I am taking a break because writing has lost (actually I have lost) the child's play element in it. I am also not sure anymore if love is/was even my motivation, or its just smth to justify my existence to myself. I must see is it love and necessity or my own mind game.

[Anonymous No.12458395]

>>12457021
what pen you using brother? pilot custom 74 medium over here

[Anonymous No.12458422]

Take the Moore Pill and only use computers at all to write using WordPad.

[Anonymous No.12458667]

>>12458395
My little cousin made this pen with some kit he got online and did the wood work. It’s pretty neat. Never used a fountain pen before.

[Anonymous No.12460290]

Nothing as comfy as a fountain pen with beautiful ink on smooth Japanese paper.

[Anonymous No.12460323]

Not sure how many people here are LARPing, but I actually write longhand with any pen on the cheapest spiral bound notebook I can find. It's slower than typing and helps me think. From there I punch it in to any text editor that has page wrap.

[Anonymous No.12460479]

>>12460323
>any text editor that has page wrap
Why is this not the golden age of literature when writing is so easy and simple?

[Anonymous No.12460690]

>>12460479
'Cause there is a lot of other things to do. Plus lol reading. Who's reading? Not me haha.

[Anonymous No.12460807]

>>12458395
Vanishing point when on the go, metropolitan/Eco when home