Word Processor or Legal Pad?

[nopantsyet]

Word processor, legal pad, forearm, bar napkin...makes no difference. Whatever's convenient when inspiration strikes. I've even been known to send myself emails to make sure I don't forget an idea.

 

[DarrenGMiller]

I have always started by putting pencil to three-ring binder captive white college-rule paper. I also use only mechanical pencils (though I went through a Black Warrior stage). I now convert most of it to MS WORD at some point, so it can be posted to the web if necessary and is more readable.


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[cmanos]

I have a PDA which goes with me everywhere. When I have time, I pull it out and jot down adventure ideas, or flesh things out. Makes it very easy to keep track of random ideas that come to me at odd moments.

 

[MerakSpielman]

My "dungeon"-type adentures generally consist of a vague, scribbled map with a few notes, and sometimes some monster stat blocks printed out from eTools.

 

[Ibram]

I use both...

If Im away from my computer I write my notes on notebook paper, if Im sitting at my desk I type away.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I use both equally.

 

[MonsterMash]

I still use both, depending on what's most convenient. Generally I like to avoid lugging around a laptop 'just in case', but an a5 spiral boundnotebook is convenient and light to carry and avoids me forgetting good ideas that come to me when I'm out and about.

 

[der_kluge]

I read somewhere that if you leave a notebook by your bed, and write down your dream right as you wake up, you'll remember most of your dreams that way. I have a nasty habit of, when I do dream, losing them right away. I tried that once a looong time ago, and it worked. I wrote down this totally psychadelic dream I'd had.

 

[Crothian]

I read somewhere that if you leave a notebook by your bed, and write down your dream right as you wake up, you'll remember most of your dreams that way. I have a nasty habit of, when I do dream, losing them right away. I tried that once a looong time ago, and it worked. I wrote down this totally psychadelic dream I'd had.

If you do this often enough, I have found that you will dream about waking and writing down your dream.

 

[Salad Shooter]

My campaign ideas/character concepts/setting ideas/etc usually begin in notebooks that I SHOULD be using to take notes for class...

After that I usually type them up in some logical format. From there, it could end up on more notebooks, or more on my computer.