I write like a 6 year old disabled kid though.
Anyone here still use pen and paper? Page 3
We still use paper to wipe our bums. And I often use a pen to work things out.
Quote: Charley @ September 3, 2007, 11:58 PMI write like a 6 year old disabled kid though.
Snap! my teachers detest it
I just had to fill in a returns slip, twice.
I've carried an A4 pad with me at all times, for the last few years. The reason for this, is that I always seem to have ideas in groups of 3 or more. You know how it is, you have one idea, and this leads to another, then another. When this happens, I have to act fast, and jott down key words for each of the ideas, before I forget them.
A4?! Sorry it just conjures up a very funny image, why not take a leaf out of Woody Allen's book in Manhattan and use a dictation machine? "Idea for a short story... Saving trees by wasting batteries instead."
I'm strictly a quill and parchment man although ye confuter maketh tappity sounds each St Swithin's day
i always have an array of notebooks at the ready. usually ones with pretty colours on from asdas.
i tend to use them just for notes.
then the computer to write scenes which then become scripts.
For sitcom: plan with pen on paper, write up, print out, write all over plan with pen, repeat ad infinitum.
For sketch: Get idea, write down in pen on miscellaneous (ie nearest) bit of paper, write in blank email/notepad on screen and extend slowly and in general until it all takes shape. Copy across line-by-line into ScriptSmart. Needless to say the first bit takes about 1% of the time and the copying and getting annoyed with ScriptSmart, the remaining 99%...
Dan
In my office a colleague just made a superb off the cuff joke at the coffee machine... out came my little notebook and jotted it down I did!
Invaluable thing a pocket notebook for recording odd little bits and pieces ... also used for ASDA lists! 
Top 10 ASDA's
1. Asda
I'm done.
Shopping list silly! You can't buy the whole store, you'd never get it in the freezer!
"Do not refreeze - Use with 3 days of opening - ensure centre is hot"
Quote: Pilot @ September 19, 2007, 7:25 AMA4?! Sorry it just conjures up a very funny image, why not take a leaf out of Woody Allen's book in Manhattan and use a dictation machine? "Idea for a short story... Saving trees by wasting batteries instead."
There's no way I'd want to be heard recording some of my more outlandish ideas into a dictaphone. Also, I'd feel like Alan Partridge, carrying one of those things around.