/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6845553]

What are you writing with?

Pen or pencil on paper? What brands do you use? Or do you type everything? What software do you use?

[Anonymous No.6845575]

>>6845553
FocusWriter and Y writer are pretty gud. I didn't like scrivener too much going on.

[Anonymous No.6845629]

Wordpad.

[Anonymous No.6845636]

>>6845553
semen on ur mums tits

[Anonymous No.6845643]

Right click > New > Rich Text Document

Honestly, do I even need something else? I make a new doc for every new idea so it's easier to keep in check and so forth so it's not like I need a program to arrange everything for me.

[Anonymous No.6845664]

Poetry on physical paper, prose mostly on generic word processors like open office and word. I am not a professional writer, though

[Anonymous No.6845666]

I think this is a good system.

It's a wooden pen holder from India with a hollowed out 95ml bottle of listerine, now full of drawing ink.

Then I write and draw with a Pentel DX mechanical pencil. The cigarette tin just holds spare leads.

[Anonymous No.6845676]

>>6845666
The lower storage compartment of the pen holder contains Cotman watercolour brushes.

[Anonymous No.6845771]

Notepad++ with the Blackboard theme, most of its toolbars hidden, and font changed from the machine text default.

It's fast, it remembers shit even if I close the program without saving (or saving at all) as long as I don't actively close the tab, and lets me work with multiple files with tabs.

>>6845575
Wish I could get into yWriter and Scrivener better. Seems like they'd be perfect for organizing a big project but I can't get used to them.

[Anonymous No.6845802]

>>6845771
Scrivener is over the top for me. FocusWriter is still my overall favorite though. I like your Notepad++ idea but after having used it solely for programming I can't imagine I'd be able to keep my mind in the proper creative state.

>>6845643
Writing software specifically marketed towards book writing seems a bit superfluous but it used because it helps to focus you as the writer using various layout techniques and tools.

[Anonymous No.6845819]

>>6845771
I'm similar, except I use Sublime Text 3.

Set word wrap to 80, install a word counter at the bottom, and good to go.

[Anonymous No.6845824]

>inb4 "crazy person"

[Anonymous No.6845840]

>>6845553
This, writing poetry on normal paper, or drawing since the feather bends a bit and it's quite nice for any sort of skizzing and such.

[Anonymous No.6845846]

>>6845771
>>6845819
I'd like to see a program that works as nicely and simply as this, but isn't a programming text editor to start with.

I'm using Write! at the moment, and it's not bad. I just wish there was a dark or inverted theme for it. I just want tabs, but also a minimalist or distraction-free GUI, and some customization.

Notepad++ is as close as I can get, but I also want to use it for program writing.

[Anonymous No.6845859]

>>6845846
>Notepadd++ is cloase as I can get

but Sublime Text is already dark/inverted theme, minimalist and offers customization.

I'm not sure that I understand the need for a nonprogramming text editor. They all edit text, just because N++ and ST3 let you edit HTML, C#, and a million other things doesn't make them any less effective at editing text.

[Anonymous No.6845876]

>>6845859
Mostly so I can do my story writing and brainstorming in a program that I don't have to change layout and preferences in for any work with programming or editing ini/cfg files.

Writing a scene in Consolas feels really weird.

[Anonymous No.6845884]

>>6845876
Really? Monospace font is the best.

[Anonymous No.6845894]

>>6845884
It's pretty slick for code, but damn does it fuck me up reading a block of text.

[Anonymous No.6845901]

>>6845553
Notepad.
Notepad++ if I need to edit lines.