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A specific community for original shortform and longform writing, stories, worldbuilding, and other stuff of that nature.

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Writing can take many forms now a days. Some prefer pen and paper and others prefer word processors. I am curious what [email protected] uses for their own writing.

For me I have used Scrivener before but found it too powerful for my style of writing. I now find myself using Google docs since it can sync to so many places and I can write wherever I go. (If anyone has a FOSS Google docs alternative I am all ears)

So, [email protected], what is your software of choice? If you prefer pen and paper, what does your process look like?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For whatever reason I could never get my brain to work with google docs or computer writing. When I was younger, I used a type writer, and it was lovely. These days I find that I'm best with pen and paper. Though that's only for the draft part. Once I'm secure in what I got, I'm typing it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pen and Paper would never have worked for me, I am so glad electronic typewriters and then computers became a popular thing. Hand writing in any form cramps my hand somewhat badly, probably related to my bad hand writing and poor small motor skills (larger hand-eye coordination is fine however)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never had the privilege of writing by hand. I got the ol' left-handed curse that smears anything written to paper.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you tried hand writing on a device? Either a tablet or one of the eink ones?

I do a bit of both and it's nice to been nice to have both the tactile sensation of writing while also having an immediately backed up digital copy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I have a nice big drawing display tablet and I should be able to give it a shot, yeah. Thanks for the suggestion! It's stupid but I would've honestly not thought of that, haha.