rough drafts before posting?

sabbath92001 · Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject:

Years ago when the internet was new, I was concerned about PGP/encryption and what I wrote. Now I could care less. Pretty much after 20+ years of Social Anxiety Disorder I've got nothing left to lose.

Nightshade · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:50 am Post subject:

I go over and over posts I write. Often I click "post reply" and then disconnect from the internet so I can spend plenty of time working on my post. Then half the time I decide that what I'm writing is not worth posting or not ready and delete it (although I keep it in a big long Word document in case I want to finish it later). Other times I start out writing a post in Word and work on it first before I go to the forum.

Good spelling and grammar as well as clear expression are important to me. I'm a bit pedantic and care about the correct use of the apostrophe, among other things.

I'm also constantly anxious I might offend someone and always need to be sure I considered the possibility of someone misinterpreting my post.

It makes me a little slow but precise writing is useful in my job and I'm useful at editing things.

applesewer · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:50 am Post subject:

Yay! I’m not the only one! *high fives nightshade*

Yea, for me it’s the being misinterpreted part that I hate. Being misunderstood is such a mega part of my life. Not only does everybody (bar my mum) misunderstand me, but I also have this unexplainable urge to capture and convey exactly how I feel. I guess that’s part of my job too.
Even when I spend hours checking that my post is as honest as possible and captures how I feel as accurately as possible, sometimes I still manage to come across wrong.
I hate that. When I mean good, but someone misinterprets for something bad, like arrogance or ignorance, and I’m like, noooo, I didn’t mean that….I hate that.

MPS · Guest

I spent almost ten minutes typing up my thread. Embarassed

Since posting on message boards, I've found notepad to be a very useful tool.