What you put your writing in?

[Anonymous No.1778757]

Do you use expensive moleskine notebooks to write in? or metal spiral-bound notebook?
Notepads? Napkins?
Not only that but what pet peeves do youhave about the things you write on or write with?

Most of my notebooks are cheap as fuck and I just need them to do there job but I always like to write some good copies of stories in a small moleskine(which I admit is vain of me)
A pet peeve I have with some notebooks is the spine, some notebooks just aren't put together right.
I also hate pens that have such thick ink that if I close the book I leave marks of ink on the opposite page.

[Anonymous No.1778762]

Being a hipster loser, I love my moleskines.

I write with a quill pen and a bottle of ink while I smoke my Italian pipe.

I also have a burnished throne that I HAVE to sit in while I write. I call it my "author chair."

[Anonymous No.1778767]

I once found this old used notebook in a value village and enjoyed writing on the yellowed pages.
but aside from that I don't give a fuck.

[Anonymous No.1778768]

>>1778762
5/5

Epic post.

[Anonymous No.1778770]

I haven't left my room in 4 weeks so I mostly put fragments of ideas in the "BABEL.txt" file on my desktop. Sometimes I record my dreams or waking thoughts in a tiny notebook that I bought when I was 10 at Dollarama. The first entry is about my first wet dream. One day it will be in a museum.

[Anonymous No.1778772]

>>1778762
I am pretty sure that's all of the /lit/fags here.

[Anonymous No.1778774]

>>1778762
i want grrm to buy an author throne with his hbo money and flood his livejournal with lots of pictures of himself jerking off and making fantasy football picks in it

[Anonymous No.1778776]

I've actually had to take a sharpy and write numbers on my filled notebooks so I know which ones are which (sigh 6 filled notebooks and 0 published books)
Also I hate those notebooks with the metal spiral-thing spine. I will never use those kind of books ever!

[Anonymous No.1778781]

what do you call the ones with the letters and numbers all over half of them? I forgot the exact name but I think they're pretty handy, got tons of space to fill out and erasing little typos is so easy when re-reading the shit I've wrote.

[Anonymous No.1778786]

>>1778781
winning!

[KOZ !Ry9.HRD23k No.1778802]

I WRITE REALIZATIONS AND/OR EPIPHANIES AND/OR PHRASES THAT "EMERGE IN MY MIND" IN PAPERSHEETS OR IN PIECES OF PAPER THAT I FOUND AT CLOSE RANGE OR IN LONG TEXT DOCUMENTS (.odt) THAT I DITCH AND START IN A NEW ONE ONCE I DO NOT LIKE IT OR FEEL IT IS FULL OF TRITE CRAP. I HAVE TROUBLES TO START A DIARY BECAUSE OF THAT AND OTHER REASONS THAT I HAVE STATED IN A THREAD MADE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THEM.

[Anonymous No.1778805]

>>1778802
Was I supposed to laugh at this?

[KOZ !Ry9.HRD23k No.1778806]

>>1778805

NO, WHY? WHAT MADE YOU LAUGH?

[Anonymous No.1778821]

Spiral-bound little thing, thin recycled paper.

Everybody hates recycled paper, but I don't. That makes me precious.

[Anonymous No.1778837]

I like recycled paper. I cant stand that kind of spine to.

[Anonymous No.1778981]

just bought a couple plain moleskines like the one in OPs pic then saw this thread, weird.

[Anonymous No.1778983]

>>1778981
Hipster detected.

[Anonymous No.1778988]

I've tried a few different ones, and found that the moleskines like in the OP are a perfect fit for me. They're rugged enough for my purposes, fit nicely in my back pocket without being too small to write in, store pens handily in the binding, have that little pocket in the back for keeping stuff, not overly expensive, easy to cop, and of course look fucking boss.

Sure, you could find a ton of notebooks that are better at some of these things, but the moleskine is the only one I've found that does all of them well.

[Anonymous No.1778991]

i was using these shitty-40 cent books for journals but then i ran out yesterday, so now \o-o/

as for my proper 'writing', i just use whatever's around at the time, whether that be a journal, my research note book, or the backs of research articles i've printed off for work. usually it doesn't matter because i throw it on a computer once i'm done. mind you, i've never written anything longer than a hundred odd pages. all i know is, those moleskins are way too expensive for draft writing, and i ain't made of cash man.

[Anonymous No.1779304]

When I was younger than I am now I bought a moleskine and it cost me $16. I actually wrote quite a bit in it. I have some smaller ones that I write little lines of poetry in when I'm on walks and stuff in my pocket. I get the most use out of the cheap paperback ones.

With that said, I've written my best poem on a piece of toilet paper. I composed my second best poem in memos on my cellphone. Moleskines are a waste of money.

[Anonymous No.1779312]

this is cool : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOlnJlP0VBI

[Anonymous No.1779314]

composition notebook, fuck a spiral binding

[Anonymous No.1779318]

I like to use legal pads.

[Anonymous No.1779321]

>>1779314
dude spiral is the only way to go what you on about

[Anonymous No.1779323]

>>1779321

left handed anon, the spirals fuck with my steez

[Anonymous No.1779333]

>>1779323
how much would you pay for a lefty spiral

[Anonymous No.1779339]

>>1779333
What would be the difference?
What difference does being left-handed have on using spiral bound pads?

[Anonymous No.1779340]

>>1779323
Just write from the back. Problem solved.

[Anonymous No.1779343]

>>1779333

about the same as for a composition notebook since that's what i use and it works really good

[Anonymous No.1779376]

[Anonymous No.1779380]

Cheap, thick paper, comes in all sizes.

It's a sketchbook, though, so all y'all that are too anal to write without lines mightn't like that.

[Anonymous No.1779390]

Continue putting your writing in hobo's notebooks while I'll put them in major publications.

[Anonymous No.1779391]

Writing?
I didn't realise we were still living in the 19th century!

[Anonymous No.1779401]

>>1779391
this.
there are still some things i do on paper, like maths because it's a hell of a lot quicker than using latex.
for words though it must be less than half the speed! and looks awful, scribbles everywhere - i'd rather be able to edit on the fly and be bashing out 108 WPM like i do on my keyboard.

[Anonymous No.1779410]

>>1779390
You enjoy scribbling in the margins?

[Anonymous No.1779414]

Laptop. Although I have a few spiral-bounds and one nicer notebook which I occasionally jot things down in. It's just much easier for me to keep organized on my computer.

[Anonymous No.1779415]

>>1779390
Vandalising books should be punishable by death.

[Anonymous No.1779420]

>>1779415

>mfw I once had a book burning party at my house

You were saying?

[Anonymous No.1779424]

I use loose sheets of paper and just shove them in a folder.

[Anonymous No.1779425]

>>1779420
Why?
What kind of books did you burn?
Or was it just like some unorganised spur of the moment "THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!" type thing?

[Anonymous No.1779427]

>>1779424

But if you write/doodle in pencil & fold it up or crumple it, the graphite smears & fades.

Then again, who the fuck writes in pencil?

[Anonymous No.1779431]

>>1779425

Little'a both, books I thought were hideous, & books that had strong sentimental value from a previous relationship. It was pretty cathartic, but I feel a little bad for it now. Except for Neil Gaiman has way too much money, anyway, so he probably didn't notice.

[Anonymous No.1779432]

>>1779427
I do otherwise I end up with sheets of paper that look like this.
This is pretty much what every other page in my college notebooks looks like, even from lectures when I am just copying stuff down.

[Anonymous No.1779438]

>>1779431
Sounds like a waste, you wouldn't do the same with a video game collection or movies would you?

Might as well have sold them, could have got a few dollars each online at least.

[Anonymous No.1779550]

> mfw i have a tall stack of fresh moleskines that i've shoplifted over the years


However, more important than the notebook is the pen. I use a Fisher Spacepen. Most people consider them a dweeb gimmick. Until they use one that is. They're smooth as silk, dry instantly, and don't run or smear. I have taken notes with one in the middle of a downpour on a molskine. Still better than Bic ballpoint on dry writing desk.

[Anonymous No.1779562]

>>1779550

i was looking at the matt black one on amazon earlier, i think i'll get it in a week or two.