What tools do you use when you write??

[landmersm]

I use MS Word with some nice chill-trance music in the background. I use Balabolka to read it back to me when finished.

[HPvD]

Yes, it's just - among other things - a blog,

The great thing about blogs is that it's indeed interesting
because it's - Interactive - so you can see what blog posts
get the most views, and that you can get comments & replies
on blog post.   

It gives some insights into what you like to read the most.
and occasionally also what you think when you comment
and/or reply on blog posts. 

In new blog posts I also frequently link to previous blogposts
in the Most Popular Posts list, building on those previous
little successes.

 

 

[LucienneR]

I've recently started to use Google voice recognition. I just open up notepad application on my Android phone and dictate. It's amazing how well it works. Much better than voice recognition used to. I'd love to be able to use it on the go, but I'm too self-conscious about dictating in public.

[HPvD]

Thanks heartsongjt, yes we aim to make our sites interesting, by for example besides providing interesting blog posts, also providing services like on our Travel Blog a 'Universal Packing List' on our Digital Camera-ideas blog a practical calculator for converting to pixels and to find the right html-color codes etc. and also info about sending our Cards as E-Cards, offering Inspiring Tweets on our Twitter page etc. etc.


For what tools for writing is concerned; also my Blogs, my own writing on them, and the readers feedback on them themselves are tools that I use for writing, tools for for example writing new blogposts.



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[poet-e]

I'm very boring. I use Microsoft Word and write in silence. I prefer it if there's no one else in the house too.

I'm in this club too.

[HPvD]

Besides all the practical tools that I wrote about in previous replies,
Specially (self-)designed noteboos, Pens & Paper, post it notes, Coffee Mugs,
and Blogs with your Comments & Replies on them!

I also use a Journal as a Tool to help with discovering interesting
themes to write about. 

[HPvD]

In a previous blog post I already wrote about writing with
our own (all-over-print) self-designed pens, .....,


......, It goes without saying that to get extra motivated we also
have a special - with typewriter lettering -

'I am a Bestselling Author' Coffee Mug!

For what the using writing tools and using special types of Lettering
for my writing things is concerned,


Recently for creating a really Big Funny 50 Year
Anniversary Birthday Card,

I also used as a tool my own Cartoon drawing skills, combined with the special design software we use for many of our designs, to create our own special
Cartoon Style Lettering.

Literally making it look like it's 'Written in Stone' (or in this particular specific case - as - stone making the Cartoon Style Lettering look like stone material)

Creating a special type of Lettering that - in Cartoon Style - looks like
the Number 50 is made from stones.

That is like a "Foreshadowing" for the Funny text inside!