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 No.14853

How do I start writing? i want to use microsoft word but its licensed to me via my university so anything I write will be theoretically accessible to them and they will probably steal my IP (property). I tried LibreOffice but it was slow as tits. Google drive strikes me as retarded as well. thoughts?

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 No.14858

>>14853

Notepad. You don't get all the features of word I thinkI haven't used it much, but it's pretty good as a simple writing software. You can have multiple tabs opened at the same time so you can work on several things at once, neat little feature I learned about a week or so ago.

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 No.14859

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 No.14861

File: b3ac00b3453da05⋯.png (1.35 MB,1440x834,240:139,Scrivener-Screenshot[1].png)

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>>14853

go to kickass site and download scrivener. it can save to any format, including word docx, pdfs, epubs, etc and formats to manuscript (or whatever you want) for writing and submission standards.

has a corkboard mode for viewing and organizing your project (most writers set up scenes and sequels on corkboards with cue cards with story ideas and scenes and mix and match and move around as they develop the story - this lets you do it on teh computer much easier).

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview is the website with a 30 day trial for free (30 days of use, so if you dont use it today, you still have 30 days, if you use it once and open again 3 months later, you still have 29 days remaining).

You can split screen in half to jump between documents or have details from a character profile or scene descriptions or whatever you want on one half and the actual chapter you are writing on bottom. These all save into separate word docx by default, but are all controlled and accessible in the pane to the left of the screen. No opening dozens of word docs and searching through directories or alt tabbing back and forth.

I use it for all my writing now. Makes it easy to prepare for a manuscript or compile for amazon publishing. Ive submitted to several agents with different guidelines and it allows you to compile it all together to those guidelines instead of one big word doc or editing dozens of files. The formatting only affects your compiled version, so you can keep the rest as is without the need to keep making new files for each publisher and so on.

I used word and notepad for longest time. Giant documents and sometimes breaking up by chapter - none really worked well for me and was a hassle to cut and paste and rearrange even simplest things. You can label things 1st draft, complete, 2nd draft, etc for easy access to whats done and needs work. Jumping to corkboard mode gives you top down look at chapters and layout and lets you fill in brief descriptions to flesh out later.

Sounds like sale pitch, but scrivener is the best thing to happen to me for writing. All your research, profiles, outlines, etc are readily accessible and can be put in folders and subfolders in the pane to the left. The amount of time its saved me in the past year Ive been using it has been ridiculous. Go get the trial, see if you like it. If you dont, no biggie. If you like it, get the torrent or pay for it. I'll probably buy it in november when the big update comes out for parity between apple and windows versions and new features added. Ive been pirating for past year.

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 No.14862

Still using Emacs.

As an oddball suggestion, I also use Mediwiki. This works best if you can maintain your own Internet accessible server. Good for on the road work. In theory, you could run it as a local copy, but that seems overly complicated. There are stand alone wiki versions as well which I found redundant since I favor MW.

Whatever application you use, the major point to remember is: writing is not typesetting. All that FX, page formatting, font twiddling, etc., comes after the writing is COMPLETE. Before that you are just wasting your time through avoidance and procrastination. Let your publisher do all that formatting for you, or pay someone (preferably a professional typesetter) to do so. If you must do it yourself, do it last.

And beware sales pitches for computer-assisted writing software. Paraphrasing some commentary by Michael Crichton, computer-assisted anything will only, at best, assist. Maybe not even that. It still won't get the writing done for you.

>>14861

>Sounds like sale pitch …

Yes, well. Scrivener is something of an industry standard now. I don't knock it, but I would pirate a copy for evaluation if I wanted to try that route. Yes, in spite of the trial offer. Once a full-time professional you become, the outlay is justifiable—both in time and money and effort, locking yourself into this as your go to tool.

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 No.14864

>OP is so dysfunctional he is concerned about the specific text-editing software before he even has managed to write anything

>is recommended to start with the use and learning of professional software instead of seeing if he even really wants to commit to writing anything of worth

Use pen and paper, faggot. If nothing else, at least your handwriting will improve and your time won't have been completely wasted.

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 No.14865

What I do is I configured vim to act like a word processor and I just use that. Yes it's just plain text files right now but I figure I'll go back and throw some html tags in there during the final edit so I can run it through Calibre and turn it into epubs.

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 No.14866

>>14865

You better be writing cyberpunk, you nerd.

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 No.14867

I’d suggest starting on pen and paper or something very basic to see if you really want to write.

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 No.14868

>>14853

What is even going on in that vid?

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 No.14869

>>14868

Diggers BTFO

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 No.14871

>>14853

libre office

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 No.14879

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>>14853

>i want to use microsoft word but its licensed to me via my university so anything I write will be theoretically accessible to them and they will probably steal my IP (property). I tried LibreOffice but it was slow as tits. Google drive strikes me as retarded as well. thoughts?

No offence, OP, but this would have to be one of the DUMBEST posts I have read today.

What's wrong with typing it in Notepad? It's free. If Microsoft want to lay claim to ur IP, they will have to risk all to admit their O/S is a massive trojan.

Or, better yet, use an ACTUAL notepad.

Do you REALLY think you NEED rich-text? If you do, then stop pretending you're an author and go back to your fanfiction site. Only hacks rely on rich-text. Or faggot "I did it ironically" poseurs. Real writers – go read Hemingway – know how to illicit emphasis and nuance from mere word-choice and sentence structure.

tl;dr lrn2fuckingEnglish

… wrote the guy who just used a WHOLE BUNCH of capitalisations and rich-text.

< B-b-but, I did it ironically

No, srsly, I don't give a fug what you guys think. This isn't my novel.

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 No.14885

>>14869

I'm surprised their government is allowing it when a mere mention of well wishes to an actress who may have been evading tax and was taken by the government is deleted from their entire internet.

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