TNT 1: Notebooks galore

[azuire]

Good evening everyone (at least, it's evening where I am). Hope you're all well. Welcome to the first Tips and Tricks column! All future entries will be searchable by the "tips and tricks" tag. Members, if you have an idea for a TNT discussion, feel free to PM it to us!

Allons-y!

I like to scribble. My current notebook has several pages that go on in messy longhand. When I was younger, I had my own typewriter and used that to hammer out my work. But to share writing on the internet, I have to type it on my computer, and for this I use OpenOffice: it has very convenient folders. I sometimes use WordPad if I'm in a hurry. I don't like Microsoft Word because it continually eats my work (and corrects my spelling). Recently a friend of mine bought Liquid Story Binder, and I saw another explaining how to use yWriter. Both seem very satisfied with their respective writing programs. So, what do you think about these programs? Which one(s) do you use? And where do you prefer to write, in notebooks, or on keyboards?

Share away :-)

Comments

[mercredigirl]

use a computer often, mostly for posting, but also in the actual writing stage as well. I can type quicker than I write (longhand), but I sometimes find that typed drafts are less vibrant then their handwritten bretheren. Formatting poetry is a nightmare via Word2007, but is has to be done!

I don't write poetry but AMEN to all of this!

[pipisafoat]

All Word drives me nuts. I mean, I can handle my own version - I sort of have to; professors are forever wanting papers emailed to them in Word format - but I hope every day that nothing ever happens to it, because I don't know that I could survive the upgrade. Not if what's on the Windows computers is anything like what my next version would have to be. NO THANK YOU.
[I have Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac]