On the whole I type, either in Word or WriteWay, depending on how long I think a project's going to be - I sometimes get it wrong and work in Word when something would be better in WriteWay because it takes on a life of its own and grows a lot more than I thought it would.
I always have a pad and pen in my handbag for those times when I'm out and ideas strike or for when I'm stuck waiting for something and can use the time to work on a scene or short fic (the hairdressers is quite often a good place to get some time for filling short prompts!)
To get me going when I'm stuck on one thing, I'll quite often use something like a prompt from fic_promptly to get the words flowing before returning to whatever I should be working on. It's normally short enough that I don't get too sidetracked and end up creating something else that ends up sitting in a 'to be finished' pile.
I'm not sure if it classes as a tool but sometimes doing a 'writing dash' with a friend where I've got to admit at the end of the set time how much I've written and feeling accountable gets the words going, even if I end up editing it into submission later.
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Date: 2013-02-12 09:00 pm (UTC)I always have a pad and pen in my handbag for those times when I'm out and ideas strike or for when I'm stuck waiting for something and can use the time to work on a scene or short fic (the hairdressers is quite often a good place to get some time for filling short prompts!)
To get me going when I'm stuck on one thing, I'll quite often use something like a prompt from
I'm not sure if it classes as a tool but sometimes doing a 'writing dash' with a friend where I've got to admit at the end of the set time how much I've written and feeling accountable gets the words going, even if I end up editing it into submission later.