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A few questions for writers

1. Pen or pencil when you write?
2. Computer or paper?
3. are the werewolf/vampire stories overused?

always pen, never pencil.
I use both. I like to have a notebook on me just in case inspiration hits when I'm out and about.
They are extremely overused. But that doesn't mean all the stories about them suck. A particular topic can become overused for many reasons, one being that so many people like to read/write them. That's never a bad thing.

#1 pen
#2 is computer
3# yes

1) pencil instead of pen, (when possible) for writing down shopping lists/phone numbers that sort of thing
2)word proccessor instead of paper if i'm going to do "writing"
3)vampire stories are over used as the direct result of Anne Rice's "Vampire Cronicles" series, these books make so much money that a lot of lazy people think that they can make "easy money" just by having vampires in the story with-out going through any kind of effort to actually make the story be well-written
having said that
i'm gonna say that for me personnaly, i think Laurell K Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series is actually better than Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles"
as for the werewolves being over-used?
what the hell?
insofar as what i've seen, were-wolf fiction is really rare, especially in proportion to how much vampire fiction is out there, so i can't really see how any one can say that werewolf fiction is "over-used"

1. Whatever's handy when I get an idea I want to jot down but pen if I have a choice.

2. Computer all the way. For some reason I can't write for shiz if I do it by hand.

3. Yeah probably but everyone loves a good action/kick butt type story (which is what I find rip off vampire stories are usually about).

1. Hate both but need them to jot down a totally random idea.

2. I love my laptop. Much easier too.

3. Vampires are effing overused. Look at Twilight and Lestat! They've made vampires a joke. A good series is Vampire Academy, where the vamps actually have original personalities. Werewolves are considerably less overused, but I think Remus Lupin's the most satisfying one I've yet read of.

1. Pen. Black ink. Has to be black ink. Don't know why.

2. Rough draft on notebook paper, succeeding drafts on computer. Journal in a notebook.

3. Yeah.

1. I left pen and pencil behind years ago. Editing on computer is much easier and does not need a "clean copy." (I got clean-copied to death when I was in school. Even an erasure was a no-no!)

Memos are another matter but they are not about writing...just as reminders added to the spittance-pile of tasks to do.

That reminds me of one that got elbowed aside last month.
Same fate this month with the demands on shrinking time.

2. Computer all the way. Why do things twice when once will do?

3. I avoid vampires so I don't know.

--Terry

Pen.
Computer (except when I haven't got a computer and I do admit those bits I write on paper are generally better)
No. It's just because they're slightly popular atm. Next fantasy book that comes out, we'll all be hating stories with whatever species that uses.

1) Pencil or black pen, and only black pen. The pencil has to be specific, which is why i sometimes use pen, easier to get your hand on. Similarly, the paper has to be specific.

2) So sometimes, I will use the computer. But I love to write on paper, i always write on paper. But i'm neurotic. If my hand writing doesn't look good enough, I panic and can't keep writing. Computers are good at those moments. Make it easier if i'm having a neurotic attack.

3) It is hard to make them original. I wish someone would and I love it when they do.

1. Pencil..It's all about being erasable!
2. Paper!
3. I think vampires are being overkilled. Anne Rice has a certain depth that I can't seem to see in any of the other vampire books I've read. As for werewolves, never heard of even one book so no I guess?

1- Pen. Pilots to be example.
2- Computer. Easier to read, easier to write, etc.
3- Probably, but I think that the ridiculousness of their predecessors has made them overused much quicker than elves and dwarfs became overused.

Neither my handwritings dreadful lawl, do all writers have messy hand? Computer, though I wish paper and yeh they are a little.

Pen - actually. I like the fluidity more ... pencil marks smudge.

And actually - I like the computer much better, and only use paper for random plot musings and sketches of settings and the like. I find I edit a LOT - so Word is useful - no erasing or crossing out, just the nice backspace key.

I wouldn't read a vampire/werewolf story unless it were really original. In the same spirit - I wouldn't write one unless Ihad a rollicker of a plot.

RJ

Pencil.
Computer.
Yes.

1. I'd rather use a pencil.
2. The computer is my writing god.
3. Yes vampire/werewolf stories are overused..in my opinion.

1. I use pen my pencils are for art
2. either.
3. The typical were' and vamps storylines are over used, but give them enough of a twist and then they're not.

1~black ink pen
2~both, but it's anoying typing it out, so those stories [normally my best] stay in the closet filed under 'TYPE UP ALREADY!'
3~ vampire, i guess, werewolf, i don't hear about many. i've written a few stories involving the two... but the count is really one with a vampire and a werewolf, three with just a vampire, zero with just werewolf.