Asura Levi
Sage
Well, for quite some time now I had discovered my liking for writing.
It all started with a simple Word document (it actually with my mother typewriter many years ago when I was but a child, but I haven't realised it at the time).
For many unfinished stories, the Word was more than enough for me. Yet, as time passed, I found it restrictive. Every time I had go on a hiatus, short or long, or I would have to recall a character whose last appearance was several pages ago, I would have to go back in the document, searching for it. A very time consuming task, no, a very time wasting task.
To counter it I looked for solutions, software that had all this characters pages that were just a click away. And in the beginning it was good.
Time kept going and with it I change computers and operating systems (abandoning windows completely for linux). As we all know, softwares don't follow you like that. And to go back to a Word document wasn't enough for me. Even to keep notes in a separated document didn't really work.
My frustration just grew bigger and bigger. Year out year in, got a myself a mac, and the scrivener as well.
Plenty of features it has, you can do everything on it, really. It also happen you can actually write on it, but all those features, so distracting.
After all these years, what I once enjoyed become an annoyance. I didn't found happiness in writing anymore. Before I blamed it on not having tools good enough that would allow me to put my ideas down into paper fast enough.
It is not that I didn't knew what to write, I knew, I had loads of ideas. But after a initial draft, it became meaningless. I would have a plot hook that would seldom develop in anything.
Well, life goes on and I ordered a dip pen believing I was getting a fountain pen. True was frustrated at first but as it was what I had I just began to writing using it. Just because I fancy.
Not long after my first words with this kind of pen I was enjoying writing again. It is true the writing is slow, very slow since I have to stop after a couple of lines to dip it on ink.
But it turned out this slow process allowed my thoughts and ideas to mature. That second I lost dipping the pen become ten times more valuable as it would allow the next sentence to take shape.
So I wonder now, after writing all this neat backstory, anyone else had gone through any similar process? Avoiding better/advanced technology because it distracted you too much from the actual writing?
I do not writing only with the dip pen, I do quite a lot using the very limited TextEdit (notepad for mac). I don't need all those refinement to tell a story, especially since I'm writing just to myself. But I do not have more that urge of writing faster and faster.
It all started with a simple Word document (it actually with my mother typewriter many years ago when I was but a child, but I haven't realised it at the time).
For many unfinished stories, the Word was more than enough for me. Yet, as time passed, I found it restrictive. Every time I had go on a hiatus, short or long, or I would have to recall a character whose last appearance was several pages ago, I would have to go back in the document, searching for it. A very time consuming task, no, a very time wasting task.
To counter it I looked for solutions, software that had all this characters pages that were just a click away. And in the beginning it was good.
Time kept going and with it I change computers and operating systems (abandoning windows completely for linux). As we all know, softwares don't follow you like that. And to go back to a Word document wasn't enough for me. Even to keep notes in a separated document didn't really work.
My frustration just grew bigger and bigger. Year out year in, got a myself a mac, and the scrivener as well.
Plenty of features it has, you can do everything on it, really. It also happen you can actually write on it, but all those features, so distracting.
After all these years, what I once enjoyed become an annoyance. I didn't found happiness in writing anymore. Before I blamed it on not having tools good enough that would allow me to put my ideas down into paper fast enough.
It is not that I didn't knew what to write, I knew, I had loads of ideas. But after a initial draft, it became meaningless. I would have a plot hook that would seldom develop in anything.
Well, life goes on and I ordered a dip pen believing I was getting a fountain pen. True was frustrated at first but as it was what I had I just began to writing using it. Just because I fancy.
Not long after my first words with this kind of pen I was enjoying writing again. It is true the writing is slow, very slow since I have to stop after a couple of lines to dip it on ink.
But it turned out this slow process allowed my thoughts and ideas to mature. That second I lost dipping the pen become ten times more valuable as it would allow the next sentence to take shape.
So I wonder now, after writing all this neat backstory, anyone else had gone through any similar process? Avoiding better/advanced technology because it distracted you too much from the actual writing?
I do not writing only with the dip pen, I do quite a lot using the very limited TextEdit (notepad for mac). I don't need all those refinement to tell a story, especially since I'm writing just to myself. But I do not have more that urge of writing faster and faster.