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What software do you use to write? No way anybody here is using google drive or word. it looks unprofessional and the format isn't right.

>> No.16612047

You know you can format your documents in Word, right?

>> No.16612048

>software
Enjoy deepthroating techonology faggot.

>> No.16612056

>>16612042
A pirated copy of Scrivener, of course.

>> No.16612074

vim

>> No.16612076

Pen and paper™

>> No.16612077

>>16612042
Vim + latex, only pseuds can't appreciate proper typesetting.

>> No.16612079
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>>16612042
>Microsoft wordpad of course!

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>>16612056
I use a legit copy myself. It's a good program, the best thing after a typewriter if you like to use a keyboard rather than handwrite (the nuns used to beat me for mine, so I have no choice).

>> No.16612093 [DELETED] 

>>16612042
Atomic Scribbler. It's a free software for writers. Link: https://www.atomicscribbler.com

>> No.16612101

>>16612042
I use emacs to write Latex.

>> No.16612128

>>16612047
>>16612056
>>16612079
>>16612092
>>16612093
>nonfree software
enjoy being slaves

>> No.16612136

>>16612128
I'm just saying, OP is a retard who doesn't know he can change margins, etc. in Word. I use LibreOffice but only because I'm stingy

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>>16612128
>pirated copy
>nonfree

>> No.16612141

>>16612136
Idk what the proper settins are

>> No.16612142

>>16612138
>closed source
>free

>> No.16612144

>>16612138
free as in beer

>> No.16612148

>>16612142
Oh you're one of those neckbeards who care about muh open source? kek have sex

>> No.16612150

>>16612138
free as in freedom, not free beer

>>16612144
u wot

>> No.16612153
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>>16612128
muh ganoo plus linugs

>> No.16612169

>>16612042
a pirated version of word 2010

>> No.16612179

>>16612169
how do you make it look like a book

>> No.16612186

>>16612042
Focuswriter

>> No.16612190

>>16612179
I just take notes and write essays with it but I'm sure you can find a guide for that on YT. That's how I learned to format docs for epub

>> No.16612196

Anyone else use Libreoffice here?

>> No.16612214

>>16612153
>>16612148
enjoy being the product

>> No.16612224

>>16612042
You know that publishers don't print books straight from Word...right?

>> No.16612227

I call it a pencil

>> No.16612230

>>16612214
enjoy being a faggot nerd. open source shit is trash. literally subpar half-baked nonsense for subhumans to brag about.

>> No.16612231

>>16612224
what do they dot hen einstein

>> No.16612233

>>16612186
I also use this. For phone I use Jotterpad when I have to get something down but I don't feel like sitting down or aren't at home. Bare minimum i need is spell check and dictionary.

>> No.16612243

>>16612076
>>16612227
How did you learn to hold/use them? I don't write with a pen/pencil often but I try sometimes and it doesn't feel right. Did you learn in school? We used tablets in school

>> No.16612250

>>16612243
The zoomers are fucking doomed we're fucked

>> No.16612251

>>16612128
Just pirate it you meganigger

>> No.16612266

>>16612243
jesus christ

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>>16612243
holy KEK

>> No.16612281

>>16612243
are you chinese?

>> No.16612282

the manuscript template of a pirated copy of final draft 10

>> No.16612295

>>16612141
12 point Times New Roman or Garamond, 1 inch margin on all sides, usually double-spaced if it's any standard kind of manuscript.

>> No.16612300

>>16612230
ackshully, closed sourcedfags have been copying off of open sourcefags since the inception of computers mmmmmkay

>> No.16612316

>>16612277
Damn,whos this?
Shes so cute bros
>tfw no gf

>> No.16612326

>>16612316
Sasha Grey

>> No.16612328

>>16612042
gedit.

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>>16612326
No way,google says thats a pornstar

>> No.16612467

>>16612250
>>16612266
so this is the 4chan equivalent of watching fb boomers unironically rage at Onion news articles.

>> No.16612939

>>16612042
>Word for final copies/page formatting/manuscript formatting
>Goodnotes on ipad for handwriting everything, notes etc.

published poet

>> No.16613029

>>16612042
>No way anybody here is using google drive or word. it looks unprofessional and the format isn't right.

What's wrong with the format?

>> No.16613036

>>16612074
based

>> No.16613066

>>16612939
>published poet
but how much have you sold?

>> No.16613070

>>16612042
Emacs org-mode

>> No.16613078

>>16612231
InDesign

>> No.16613085

>>16612295
Thank you i'll pirate word

>> No.16613089

>>16612939
>published poet
Is that even a job? Do people read, let alone buy, contemporary poetry?

>> No.16613171

>>16612243
Top bait

>> No.16613182

>>16612042

Does it matter?

>> No.16613183

>>16612227
I can't read my own handwriting

>> No.16613197

>>16612079
This but unironically

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>>16612042
File format: HTML/CSS
Text editor: Notepad++
Example (transcription from a paper book, not my original work): files dot catbox dot moe slash oyyt6j dot html
Note the list of CSS rules at the top of the file (when viewed in a text editor). These allow lots of fancy styling (including some limited interactivity: show or hide footnotes, increase or decrease font size, switch to serif or sans-serif font family, etc.), WITHOUT the bloated, non-book-like Javascript that so many "modern" Web pages rely on.

>> No.16613404

>>16613396
It's important to remember that "what you see is what you get" is a very bad way to write heavily-styled text documents. It's a lot simpler to separate creation and viewing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

>> No.16613422

>>16612042
A combination of LibreOffice, Focuswriter, Jotterpad, Dropbox Writebox, and Sprinter.

>> No.16613511

An Empire Aristocrat typewriter to draft (I type faster than I can write longhand) and then Microsoft word for re-draft.

>> No.16613727

>>16613066
id imagine hes sold however many copies of /lit/ quarterly have been shipped out

>> No.16613738

>>16612042
>word
Professional editors almost 100% work in Microsoft Word.

When asked what format they want, it's Word. For blind submissions, they may want plain text in the email because of malicious attachments, but once you have a relationship, it's Word.

I write in Vim + Latex. Switch to Word when it gets past the draft stage.

>> No.16613748

>>16612939
Also a published poet. Also Word for interacting with agents. It's the industry standard.

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Google Docs did I stutter?

>> No.16613953

Joplin

>> No.16614457

>>16612128
>literally microsoft word

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>>16612230

>> No.16615869

>>16612243
No fucking way this is not a bait. But then again it is the future we are headed.