Spring Writing Gala~Day 6

Yea!!!!!!! I finally caught up! For Day 6 of the Spring Writing Gala, I am to simply post a few pictures or a video of what I write with. While I do have a camera that takes video, I will be doing pictures, because I not only like having an excuse to take and mess around with them, I take awful videos and I am not nearly so good at editing them. I can't even take stuff out. Pretty much what I tape is what I get,

The main thing I write on is the family desk top. Sometimes this causes trouble in my family, as there are five of us fighting over the computer. (And that number is recent. It was not too long ago when it was eight of us!) I typically put some good instrumental music on at Pandora and go at it. The desk top is where I do my novels. I prefer this for my novels simply because of the ease and speed I can write while typing on the computer. Since novels usually take several rewritings, it is also easier for that reason. I do print out copies and make notes and such on the physical copy, but then I make the actual changes the text on the computer. And I have no idea why the picture is to the left. It should be in the center.

As any writer will probably agree, there is not much of a 'writingish' feel to a computer. As for as writing on it goes, it is almost cold and devoid of personality. As efficient as it is for writing, it simply is not that aesthetically pleasing, (yes, I know, wrong context for that phrase, but you know what I mean and I could not think of anything better.) I can write on a desk top, but I can not create on a desk top.  So for short stories, poems, plot outlines, character sketches, stories ideas, time outlines, essays, writing exercises, pretty much everything else but novels, I turn to my collection of note books. And yes, my different note books have different purposes.

If a girl uses note books, then obviously she uses pens and pencils. 

And then every once in a while I use my typewriter. I received it for Christmas several years back, and while I absolutely love it, I only use it every now and then for fun. I would still say it is one of the best gifts I have received over the past few years. I love my Brother, but it is just not that practical to use.