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

[pipisafoat]

When I still used Windows, I liked WordPad and TextPad an awful lot. Depending on how I was writing. TextPad if I was writing in HTML (which I do automatically now - you wouldn't believe the time I have to spend fixing school papers) and WordPad if I wanted to format it right there.

I can't keep up typing, either, but it's faster than writing, at least. I think maybe we all just think too fast. The curse of the writer!

[selkath]

Oh, yeah. I use NotePad for HTML (and I use HTML tags in all my writing as it is, since pretty much everything gets posted on the internet. I occasionally leave them in a document that meant to be formatted and have to go back and remove them after I've printed it, because I don't notice 'til then.)

Indeed! The curse of the writer!