So I had this conversation with a human, and it basically made me curious about whether writers out there have any favourite ways of writing when we look at it from a purely technical side.
Do you use font size 12, and write with 1.5 spacing like you're already preparing it for publishing? Do you use whatever standard font, or like to make it curly or creepy or handwriting-like-ish so you'd like it better when you look at it? Do you always write black on white, or sometimes play with colours? Do you use comments, footnotes and stuff alike to add thoughts or whatever, do you even care for all that stuff? Do you use different folders, or different documents for different scenes/characters/etc? Which parts do you prefer writing regularly, and which in italic/bold/small caps/whatever?
Or, if you prefer writing in hand, do you have a favourite pen and notebook for it, or does neither of it matter? Do you prefer lines, or squares, or empty paper, or perhaps some with a weird design of some sort? Do you have separate notebooks for separate stories, or write them all in one big one as the ideas come to you? Do you prefer a pen or a pencil, or maybe something completely else? Do you use colours and/or add drawings or diagrams or something..? How do you mark a part that'll once be in italic/bold/etc when you type it to computer, if you mark it anyhow?
Do you ever delete stuff, or mark them too somehow? There are so many questions on these topics, so tell me how you write :3 Oh, and if anyone has invented some neat new method of organising stuff or using colours for something or creating mementoes they can use as bookmarks or anything alike, do share your tips with the rest of us :3
Personally, I prefer writing in hand, and I keep a big notebook with different compartments of sorts, so I can separate the stories. However, I usually write the actual story on computer, while using the notebook and pen(s) for random scenes only. I also prefer thin ink-like pens (honestly no idea how to call them in English lol), they're even waterproof and can stay very readable when I make notes on my hand/arm/available piece of skin in case the notebook is out of my reach Sometimes I write them on random papers too, in those cases I tape them somehow to the notebook or make pockets to put them in. *artsy*
When I want to mark italics, /I write the text like this/. I don't use bold, and I rarely if ever use caps, so slashes are my best friends for emphasizing stuff. I always draw in the middle of my writing, and write around/over those drawings... Rarely use colours, but when I don't have my favourite kind of pen or want to make something noticeably different for some reason, I'll write with a pencil/different colour just as easily.
On computer, it's usually Helvetica 10, single spaced. Which makes it much bigger when I change it to Times 12, spacing 1.5, but that's just too huge for me, I don't like my own words screaming at me like that xD It's usually black or white, though I sometimes divide different POVs by colours, or mark important scenes that way..
But, I've rambled enough now xD I'm curious about how other people see these things - if you think about your own ways, I'm sure you'll figure you do have a favourite, even if you never thought of it
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