Pens, paper, and/or

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Pens, paper, and/or

Pens, paper, and/or notebooks. 

 To those brave people who are NaNoing in pen/pencil and paper (or anyone who handwrites stories in general) do you guys write with a special pen/pencil? In a specific notebook? 

 I, right now, have an obsession with black pens. And gel pens. And Metallica. (completely unrelated) Anyways, it's because I won a black clicky pen that I became extremely attached to. Then I lost it a few days after. But now I have replaced that pen with a black ballpoint pen that spins and turns. 

 Ciao, off to NaNoLand.

 Olive 

submitted by Olive
(November 16, 2010 - 7:26 pm)

I don't know what "nanoing" is but I write on the computer (Microstoft Office Word 2007), pencil, gel pen (black, slide across paper easy). Nothing else really!!!

 

Oh and just notebook paper.

I believe "nanoing" would be participating in NaNoWrMo, National Novel-Writing Month, a project in which participants aim to write 50,000 words in the month. Or maybe you can set a shorter goal. Several Chatterboxers are doing it this month. One of the partcipants can give you more details.

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submitted by Glad 2 b of service!, [only Vida]
(November 16, 2010 - 9:56 pm)

Oh, ok, thanks! That sounds cool!

submitted by VIDAVIDAVIDA!!!!!!!!
(November 18, 2010 - 6:22 pm)

I write on my Laptop of Insanity for the most part. His name is Hex (cookies if you got the reference). I use Word, and very occasionaly Write or Die. However, I enjoy spiral notebooks and purple pens for journalling/writing ideas down when there is no computer/novel planning/etc. 

submitted by ZNZ
(November 17, 2010 - 8:56 pm)

I generally write on a computer, but when I don't, I do have a favorite pen. It's blue. The end of it that isn't used for writing used to be able to light up, but then I accidentally broke it, and when I put it back together I couldn't figure out how to make that bit work again...

You can only set a shorter goal than 50k if you're doing the Young Writers' Program instead of the official thing. Oh, and the words you write have to be a novel.

submitted by Ima, Planet Terra
(November 18, 2010 - 12:15 am)

I write my NaNo Novel on my Netbook (small laptop) but I think that the people who do NaNo with a notebook and pen are amazing! That would be super hard, especially since you wouldn't have an automatic word count. :) I love gel pens, but I think black pens work better. I write in notebooks a lot (poem writing, song writing, journal writing) and I don't use any specific type. I do like spiral though... :)

submitted by Kimberly B., age 15, USA! :)
(November 18, 2010 - 1:30 pm)

I want a netbook!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted by Charlotte
(November 18, 2010 - 7:57 pm)

@Charlotte- I got one for my 14th birthday, I love it! It is so useful during NaNo because since it's so small I can bring it with me in the car when we drive somewhere. That way I can keep writing! :) Maybe you can get one for Christmas? :)

submitted by Kimberly B., age 15, USA! :)
(November 19, 2010 - 11:59 am)

I was taking apart my favourite pen in science class (a very boring class, because of the teacher) and my friend took away the spring and won't give it back. She doesn't know where it is. My other friend does but she's gonna give it to me for Christmas. Which is a long time away. :-( I'm just glad I have an extra pen of the same kind. 

Vida: NaNoing is a verb. It means when you're writing a story/novel for NaNo. ;-) 

submitted by Olive
(November 18, 2010 - 7:12 pm)

When I NaNo I use Microsoft Offive Word 2007, but when I'm doing other stories I only use one brand of gel pen (of course I can't think of it right now -.-).  When I'm noveling I have to use blue but I have other colors for different things. (Green is for lists, black is for 4-H stuff and so on.)  My only preference in notebooks is that it be blue or green and it be college ruled.

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(November 18, 2010 - 8:00 pm)

Papermate!  Papermate Gel!  That's what it is!

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(November 19, 2010 - 6:07 pm)

@Charlotte: Cool! My specifics are red for marking stuff, and black for everything else.:-P  

submitted by Olive
(November 19, 2010 - 5:28 pm)

Yeah, I use red when I'm going over my schoolwork (a homeschooling thing). 

submitted by Charlotte, age 12, Lost in my mind
(November 20, 2010 - 9:45 pm)

When I write, it's usually stream-of-conciousness stuff or the occasional poem. If I don't have a notebook or pen that feels right, I just can't write. Sometimes I have to have a spiral-bound notebook with unlined paperand a metal pen that clicks. Other times, I bsolutely have to have a pencil and really thick paper, or a blue pen with lined paper, etc.

Spammy says koki. That sounds like a name, sort of...

submitted by Cara
(December 1, 2010 - 1:34 pm)