Posting habits

Wind In My Hair · Post by **Wind In My Hair** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 7:02 pm

each time i post i always click the button to read the post, so i can see what it looks like in print. and often i find that i'm not too happy with silly things like punctutation or choice of words, or some afterthought occurs to me that i want to add in. so i end up editing lots of my posts.

i think it's a writer's habit... never happy with the draft, always trying to improve it. and i can't seem to shake that habit on this forum.

is it just me that does this or do some of you do it too?

Vaucluse · Post by **Vaucluse** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 7:47 pm

You are the only one to do so, WIMH . . . . Yes, you are alone.

(unless you want to have a little party, of course!!!

)

Post by **sundaymorningstaple** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 7:50 pm

You're not alone.

k1w1 · Post by **k1w1** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 8:21 pm

Yup, I do it too. And then I open the message again to check it.

Plavt · Post by **Plavt** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 9:26 pm

Vaucluse wrote:You are the only one to do so, WIMH . . . . Yes, you are alone.

(unless you want to have a little party, of course!!! )

Not true I do the same and often feel the same way too.

Plavt · Post by **Plavt** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 9:35 pm

Wind In My Hair wrote:each time i post i always click the button to read the post, so i can see what it looks like in print. and often i find that i'm not too happy with silly things like punctutation or choice of words, or some afterthought occurs to me that i want to add in. so i end up editing lots of my posts.

i think it's a writer's habit... never happy with the draft, always trying to improve it. and i can't seem to shake that habit on this forum.

is it just me that does this or do some of you do it too?

I am always doing the same thing, no matter what I write I always seem to make spelling mistakes in particular or I feel that I did not get my point across. However, this is what many students do when they are new to writing essays and quite likely when they are well practiced as you are as a writer. Besides it is always a good idea to read what you wrote a mistake I used to make.

Plavt.

Vaucluse · Post by **Vaucluse** » Sat, 01 Oct 2005 10:23 pm

Plavt wrote:
Vaucluse wrote:You are the only one to do so, WIMH . . . . Yes, you are alone.

(unless you want to have a little party, of course!!! )
Not true I do the same and often feel the same way too.

R I P Irony, died 01.10.2005

Wind In My Hair · Post by **Wind In My Hair** » Sun, 02 Oct 2005 2:50 pm

Vaucluse wrote:R I P Irony, died 01.10.2005

and alleluia to the resurrection of WYSIWYG!

well glad to know im not alone. guess that makes many of us "Edit"ors!

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:32 pm

Vaucluse wrote:
Plavt wrote:
Vaucluse wrote:You are the only one to do so, WIMH . . . . Yes, you are alone.

(unless you want to have a little party, of course!!! )
Not true I do the same and often feel the same way too.

R I P Irony, died 01.10.2005

Smartass!

Btw, I don't check before I hit the 'submit' button. Vaucluse doesn't either, his typos are in your face all the time!

Wind In My Hair · Post by **Wind In My Hair** » Mon, 03 Oct 2005 9:08 am

sapphire wrote:Btw, I don't check before I hit the 'submit' button. Vaucluse doesn't either, his typos are in your face all the time!

but do you go and read your post AFTER you submit and THEN make changes ?

and about vaucluse's typos - you don't suppose it's cos the pretty boy is busy looking into the mirror while he types, is it?

Carpe Diem · Post by **Carpe Diem** » Mon, 03 Oct 2005 9:31 am

Wind In My Hair wrote:
sapphire wrote:Btw, I don't check before I hit the 'submit' button. Vaucluse doesn't either, his typos are in your face all the time!
but do you go and read your post AFTER you submit and THEN make changes ?

and about vaucluse's typos - you don't suppose it's because the pretty boy is busy looking into the mirror while he types, is it?

I fully agree with WIMH

dot dot dot · Post by **dot dot dot** » Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:00 am

Wind In My Hair wrote: but do you go and read your post AFTER you submit and THEN make changes ?

That's what I always do. And then I get impatient because it sometimes takes so long to reload the page when wanting to edit...

I guess I am not so much the smartest editor around, but most definately the most impatient one...

Eric

Wind In My Hair · Post by **Wind In My Hair** » Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:34 am

Carpe Diem wrote:I fully agree with WIMH

you're a very good boy, CD.

Carpe Diem · Post by **Carpe Diem** » Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:52 am

Wind In My Hair wrote:
Carpe Diem wrote:I fully agree with WIMH

you're a very good boy, CD.

Yes, agree.

sapphire · Post by **sapphire** » Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:18 pm

Wind In My Hair wrote:
sapphire wrote:Btw, I don't check before I hit the 'submit' button. Vaucluse doesn't either, his typos are in your face all the time!
but do you go and read your post AFTER you submit and THEN make changes ?

and about vaucluse's typos - you don't suppose it's because the pretty boy is busy looking into the mirror while he types, is it?

Very rarely do I check after submitting. I guess that's also 'cause I don't write essays here.

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