[Crash_00]

I'd be willing to bet I have enough notebooks to fill a 10 gallon tote these days. Everything from 7th Sea adventures when I was 13 to complete Deadlands campaigns that will probably never see the light of day again.

I know I don't have the time, patience, or money these days to keep up with a website. On that note, what would the chances be for CGL to host a fansite for users to post unofficial material to? I know if I had somewhere to put it where it wouldn't disappear in a week, I'd love to share my 2073 Knight Errant Armaments weapons log pdf with people.

The only issue I foresee with going this route is that most people won't like it if there is the standard RPG company "blah blah blah, all submissions give us copyright, blah blah blah" tag. I understand the general need for such things for the cases of pitches as the company may already be working on something similar, but I would think that it would be detrimental in this case.

[Crimsondude]

I DO have a 50-gallon storage box filled with notebooks, printouts, and most of my hardcopy books. I haven't looked in that box in years. There is at least one more box sitting in my bedroom that's about 1.5 cubic feet with notebooks, pads, etc. Plus all the current stuff I have sitting on multiple HDDs.

[Critias]

Man, you write a lot of shit down.  The only thing in the world I've hand written for the last fifteen years are class notes for school.  And even there, I've got...uhh...seven semesters worth of notes in three eight-and-a-half by eleven spiral bound notebooks, with room to spare.

No kiddin' you're an "idea" guy.  Yeesh.  That's an awful lot of ideas, man.   

[Crimsondude]

It helps not to have friends or a life or now family less than 800 miles away.

[Critias]

I just can't imagine the arthritic claw-flipper-thing my arm would turn into if I tried to hand write that much, is all.  It's not a knock on people that can and do, just my own knee-jerk reaction against having to physically manipulate a pen or pencil in order to create letters that turn into words that turn into coherent sentences.  I detest the primitive act of scrawling out my barely decipherable handwriting, and it blows my mind that someone with so much to say would choose to say it in that way, instead of typing it.  I've hated writing anything by hand for about two decades now.

Now I can't help but picture you hunched over rolls of vellum, scratching away with a little vial of ink and a quill, sealing up your next chapter proposal with a glob of wax and a signature ring, before sending it off to Jason by horseback courier. 

[Crash_00]

Well I know I personally always have a notebook an pen/pencil on me because I have to jot down every good idea i think of (and of course they always have to come up when I'm away from the computer, damn the fates).

On that note, the bulk of my notebooks hold stuff from before I had a computer to type things on. I usually type out my notes and make a backup and keep the handwritten copy just in case all my hard drives get fried (gotta hate those lightning strikes).

That said, I'm very happy that I don't have to use a quill these days. Had to do that in art class and it was even worse than my usually illegible chicken scratch. 

Now that I'm finally graduated, I finally have time to work on putting some of the ideas to use. Yay for free time.

[Prime Mover]

Have 4 giant plastic totes in my basement full of old games and notes.  Dug around in them last winter.  Things I found.
1. Writing tablet full of d&d npc's from the old basic days.
2. Cyberdungeon my cp2020 d&d mashup home brew notes.
3. Hand drawn maps aplenty.
4. 1st editon SR pc's and a plastic sheet covered graph paper page with a grease pencil map from my final 1st edition game.
5. 8,000lbs of white wolf books.
6. A small mountain of magic cards.
7. Enough notes and test chacters to choke a Dragon.
8. My first foray into game design s.o.d.  Special Objectives Detachment.  A modern day black ops game. (modern in the 80's that is.)
And lot's more.
I had alot more free time in the past that's for sure.

[Crimsondude]

I think part of it came from having to share a computer until I was in college, and then it was sharing with the lab. I actually don't write much by hand anymore, especially in the last four or five years. I don't really write much at all anymore. The bitch of it is that I am an incredibly slow typist. I knew Critias was a fast typist just by how fast he could crank out stuff on SL, and then later how fast he's written stuff for Missions and other drafts. But then I actually saw him typing in his office while I was pecking away at my laptop across the room and a part of me died.

[Crash_00]

To increase typing speed I highly recommend learning a little bit of programming. I was terribly slow as well, but as soon as I picked up C++ my typing speed doubled, and once I became proficient in the language its about four times what it was. From what little I've looked into it, learning to type the non-spoken languages used for programming helps the brain learn the letter locations better than trying to learn on a normal language.

That said, the faster I learn to text, the slower my typing gets. Stupid tiny screens.

If you're interested I could probably find some of my old programming labs.

[John Schmidt]

To really increase typing speed...I say go with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It takes a bit to get used to talking for writing but it has jumped up my daily word count by more than 50%.

[Mystic]

Or learn to type faster when you have a 10+ page arrest report and have a DA breathing down your neck or REEEEEEEEEALY want (read: NEED) to go home!

I don't know what my speed is now, but one of my nicknames in the station was "machine gun" and it had nothing to do with firearms.

[CanRay]

To really increase typing speed...I say go with Dragon Naturally Speaking. It takes a bit to get used to talking for writing but it has jumped up my daily word count by more than 50%.

As long as it's able to understand you.  With my Ontarian Accent, I was never able to get it to work quite so well with me, despite months of "Learning" my voice.

Or learn to type faster when you have a 10+ page arrest report and have a DA breathing down your neck or REEEEEEEEEALY want (read: NEED) to go home!

I don't know what my speed is now, but one of my nicknames in the station was "machine gun" and it had nothing to do with firearms.

The more I learn about the Justice System...  *Shakes Head*

[Crash_00]

I've got the same problem with voice typing. Stupid machines can't understand a southern accent. Fortunately my typing speed isn't that horrible anymore.

[hobgoblin]

Point #2

Heh, i have been looking at the young ladies lately and i could have sworn i was back during my teen years based on their hairstyles and wardrobe choices.

And ugh, now that i think about it i think i owned a red leather tie once...

[CanRay]

I had a skinny black leather tie...