Writing

46 readers

2 users here now

A specific community for original shortform and longform writing, stories, worldbuilding, and other stuff of that nature.

Subcommunity of Creative

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Preferred writing medium (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

66 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Writing can take many forms now a days. Some prefer pen and paper and others prefer word processors. I am curious what [email protected] uses for their own writing.

For me I have used Scrivener before but found it too powerful for my style of writing. I now find myself using Google docs since it can sync to so many places and I can write wherever I go. (If anyone has a FOSS Google docs alternative I am all ears)

So, [email protected], what is your software of choice? If you prefer pen and paper, what does your process look like?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What kind of writing are you talking about here? If it's something where I don't intend to insert a lot of text and move things around or do other large, structural edits, like journaling, I use a nice fountain pen (e.g. Pilot Vanishing Point) on good Clairefontaine paper. This is also how I write first drafts of poems. Occasionally I'll do some light edits to the original before transferring to something electronic for more serious edits.

Other stuff, like TTRPG adventure building / worldbuilding, I write first drafts on my reMarkable 2. It's an exceptionally hackable (offers root access out of the box!) e-ink tablet running ARM Linux. Once I'm happy with what I've written on the reMarkable, I transfer it to plain text documents written with neovim. I use a couple of plugins for this, specifically vimoutliner and vimwiki. Additionally, these documents live under git version control. I tried more powerful tools like Campfire Blaze and WorldAnvil, but they're just too much tooling for me.