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Do you keep a private diary or journal outside of livejournal? Yup.

Is it another online journal or a real one? Define 'real'. It's not an online one, but it's not a pen-and-paper one either.

How does your other writing differ from what you write here? (Is it angrier? Longer? Shorter? More personal? Drawn? Less descriptive? Disjointed?) It's generally angrier and more disjointed; more stream-of-consciousness. Of course, there's some stuff which is just the same as LJpostage, and often gets posted, or is the same as LJpostage but doesn't get posted because of subject matter.

What does your other journal look like? It looks like a Word file on my Psion. (My Psion is a pretty silver thing surrounded by a pretty blue shiny case. Confusingly, the case has a silver and black label proclaming 'PalmTec'.)

Do you have a pen/marker/pencil preference? I use cheap black biros pretty much exclusively, although if I'm drawing sometimes I prefer pencil because I can rub bits out and change them. (The pencils I use are mostly 'rescued' from the ground/floor in various places around school. I don't think I actually carry any pencils I bought myself.)

Do you use stickers or glue in pictures? Not for considerable amounts of time. I do carry glue around in my bag (of the pathetic Pritt Stick variety), but that's mostly because people often ask me if I have glue/sellotape (which I also have) and I like to be able to say 'yes' and give them some.

How often do you write in it? Oh, we were still meant to be talking about that offline journal? Then the last two questions don't apply, because it's in electronic form :-). I write in it whenever I'm too stressed not to, or I have a good idea or want to write up something and I'm not at a proper computer.

Do you write poetry? Yes. I haven't for an awful long time, though. I seem to have written so much that I keep remembering pieces of old poems and they interfere with writing new ones.

Do you write fiction? I'm currently busy editing my NaNoNovel; it's currently over 50,600 words, and growing. I know I'm meant to cut bits out when editing, but I can't bring myself to do so, so I'm just tweaking the edges really...

Do you keep a sketchbook or do a lot of doodling? I used to doodle an awful lot; now I generally draw some Haylar when I'm in a doodly mood, although I do still doodle on paper occasionally.

When/where do you write? Overwhelmingly at school. If I'm at home I tend to write in LJ, although sometimes when I get stressed at home or it's late at night I'll write in my Psion instead.

Do you have a writing ritual? Uh? What's one of those?

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[passage.livejournal.com]

"Do you have a writing ritual? Uh? What's one of those?"

Its where you sacrifice a small goat before beginning writing. It invokes the spirit of a really angry farmer whom you stole said goat from.

Neil

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

There's Word for the Psion?

[chess]

Fakenword. It's *called* Word, though.

[passage.livejournal.com]

There's an Epoc Program called Word for the Psion, it does almost everything that m$ word does (excluding colours and split screen and the like, i.e. thinks that a psion's hardware renders impractical or impossible to use) that's remotely useful (animated text is out for example) but loads in a fraction of the time and can only take up at most a couple of MB of storage space.

It's rather like what m$ word ought to be, but isn't.

Neil

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised MS are okay with it.

[chess]

Bah. No implementation of Word is truly complete without a perfectly useable vector drawing package embedded in it...