I want a nice journal

Originally Posted by Rambo

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You mean as opposed to the piece of technology you have to lug around to access the word file?

Wat?

Use a program like DropBox to access your journal anywhere with an internet connection. Keeping your journal on one local machine is a terrible idea. Just asking to lose all your work with one hard drive failure.

Originally Posted by Rambo

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You mean as opposed to the piece of technology you have to lug around to access the word file?

At one point, paper and writing tools were considered "technology."

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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At one point, paper and writing tools were considered "technology."
I remember when. You've seen the photo.

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

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Wat? Use a program like DropBox to access your journal anywhere with an internet connection. Keeping your journal on one local machine is a terrible idea. Just asking to lose all your work with one hard drive failure.
Yes, but you have to be able to access it with something. iPhone, iPad, iAsshole, etc.. You're just trading one thing you have to lug around for another.

Originally Posted by Piobaire

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At one point, paper and writing tools were considered "technology."
Thank you professor

Originally Posted by RSS

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I remember when. You've seen the photo.

Originally Posted by Rambo

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Yes, but you have to be able to access it with something. iPhone, iPad, iAsshole, etc.. You're just trading one thing you have to lug around for another.

I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm just being reasonable.

1) E-journals allow you to back up your work. It cannot get stolen while you are traveling. It cannot get lost. It cannot get rained on and smudged. This of course assumes you are using something like DropBox to share the file in real-time.

2) They allow for password protection so you can write honestly without concern of someone laying their hands on it and reading something potentially private/offensive.

3) They allow for you to write from anywhere with an internet terminal (hotels, internet cafes, hotels).

4) If you want to share an excerpt with someone, copy/pasting is very easy.

5) Faster to write. I usually want to write a lot but cannot type as fast as I think. Writing is even slower, and certainly harder to read afterward.

I do agree that it can be inconvenient if you do not carry around a NetBook or laptop. I usually do, so an electronic journal makes the most sense for me. If you travel a lot an dislike laptops, I guess a physical journal might make sense. If you do not travel, e-journal is again the way to go.

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

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I usually want to write a lot but cannot type as fast as I think. Writing is even slower, and certainly harder to read afterward.
I used to let my assistant do all that typing stuff for me. But he got too high-falutin' ... so I finally had to get him an assistant.

I've told him over and over that he and his new assistant don't really need to share a room ... I can afford one for each ... but neither he nor she seems to mind.

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

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I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm just being reasonable. 1) E-journals allow you to back up your work. It cannot get stolen while you are traveling. It cannot get lost. It cannot get rained on and smudged. This of course assumes you are using something like DropBox to share the file in real-time. 2) They allow for password protection so you can write honestly without concern of someone laying their hands on it and reading something potentially private/offensive. 3) They allow for you to write from anywhere with an internet terminal (hotels, internet cafes, hotels). 4) If you want to share an excerpt with someone, copy/pasting is very easy. 5) Faster to write. I usually want to write a lot but cannot type as fast as I think. Writing is even slower, and certainly harder to read afterward. I do agree that it can be inconvenient if you do not carry around a NetBook or laptop. I usually do, so an electronic journal makes the most sense for me. If you travel a lot an dislike laptops, I guess a physical journal might make sense. If you do not travel, e-journal is again the way to go.
I wasn't trying to argue and these are all excellent points for using technology over pen and paper. But the point you made earlier was about 'carrying things around'. I was just saying that, in the end, you are carrying something one way or another.

Originally Posted by RSS

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I used to let my assistant do all that typing stuff for me. But he got too high-falutin' ... so I finally had to get him an assistant.

I've told him over and over that he and his new assistant don't really need to share a room ... I can afford one for each ... but neither he nor she seems to mind.

This happened to me in the late 1990s, when I lived in Provence. I was working on my third book, actually more of a vignette revolving around the sexual lives of 19th century Balkan serfs. Anyway, I had a similar configuration of an assistant and sub-assistant, each of different sexes. One thing led to another and the transcription slowed to a halt. I would estimate that at the trough they were producing less than thirty words per minute!

I had to put them to sleep after that. It wasn't easy - if you've ever had a gerbil that died or a dog that you had to put to sleep as it got older, you will know how this felt for me. But it had to be done...it was for the best for all parties involved. I switched to an electronic journal, and they had clearly outlived their usefulness as typists. Every time I walk past the well in which their broken bones have laid in for the last decade, I am reminded of the good times we had during those quiet days on the outskirts of Avignon.

Originally Posted by Connemara

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Thanks guise! Bought a Moleskine and some Uniball Jetstream pens from Amazon. I love spending money on things I don't need.

I use moleskine's, love them and have quite a few in different sizes, and lined and unlined...the unlined is better for ****** illustrations!

Originally Posted by sonlegoman

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Trapper Keeper. You can keep scraps of photos of pop stars and clips you rip out of Tiger Beat.

I remember when the first Five Star binders came out and they had the mesh pockets for floppy discs. I thought I was so tech savy for getting one.

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

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This happened to me in the late 1990s, when I lived in Provence. I was working on my third book, actually more of a vignette revolving around the sexual lives of 19th century Balkan serfs. Anyway, I had a similar configuration of an assistant and sub-assistant, each of different sexes. One thing led to another and the transcription slowed to a halt. I would estimate that at the trough they were producing less than thirty words per minute!

I had to put them to sleep after that. It wasn't easy - if you've ever had a gerbil that died or a dog that you had to put to sleep as it got older, you will know how this felt for me. But it had to be done...it was for the best for all parties involved. I switched to an electronic journal, and they had clearly outlived their usefulness as typists. Every time I walk past the well in which their broken bones have laid in for the last decade, I am reminded of the good times we had during those quiet days on the outskirts of Avignon.
I was recently at a cocktail party ... and the person to whom I was talking said ... "I was putting this old woman to sleep this afternoon ... at Our Lady of Perpetual Indulgence Hospital ... " Well, I heard not another word and begain to fear that I was talking to a mercy killer of some kind. Perhaps he could read my face ... because he piped in with ... "Oh, I'm an anaesthetist, by the way. " Whew!

I need to go on a quick rant about journals. If you ever go to Barnes and Noble or Borders and look at the journals, they have the most stupid looking pieces of ****. It's like every one of them was designed by the Brothers Grimm.

Don Draper keeps a journal.

Originally Posted by MetroStyles

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I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm just being reasonable.

1) E-journals allow you to back up your work. It cannot get stolen while you are traveling. It cannot get lost. It cannot get rained on and smudged. This of course assumes you are using something like DropBox to share the file in real-time.

2) They allow for password protection so you can write honestly without concern of someone laying their hands on it and reading something potentially private/offensive.

3) They allow for you to write from anywhere with an internet terminal (hotels, internet cafes, hotels).

4) If you want to share an excerpt with someone, copy/pasting is very easy.

5) Faster to write. I usually want to write a lot but cannot type as fast as I think. Writing is even slower, and certainly harder to read afterward.

I do agree that it can be inconvenient if you do not carry around a NetBook or laptop. I usually do, so an electronic journal makes the most sense for me. If you travel a lot an dislike laptops, I guess a physical journal might make sense. If you do not travel, e-journal is again the way to go.

MS, thanks for turning me on to Drop Box. Talk about a perfect app for computer/smartphone combo.