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Post by Zoni on Apr 28, 2015 10:14:47 GMT
I'm curious. What software do you use to write?
I write exclusively in Notepad. It's lightweight, and I love the minimalistic interface. There's nothing to distract me. And when I'm doing draft work, I can stack windows one on top of the other and it makes running through a new draft easy as pie.
Even though I write in Notepad, I spell check and edit in MS Word (I have an Office 365 subscription), and I have three or four other word processors on back-up just in case. |
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 16:23:07 GMT
You write in notepad *Gives you pat in the back* I couldn't do it. My typos are so bad I'd cry while doing spell check.
My favorite Software is my word. I have word 13 though I tend to like my notebooks the best though. I tend to write at random times and always have a notebook even if it's a mini on. It also helps that I have an obsession with colored pens.
How does the different tabs help? What do they have on them?
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Post by Zoni on Apr 28, 2015 16:27:36 GMT
See, I couldn't write in word. Too many temptations there. I'd stop and check my word count every five minutes or spell check, and that's nonsense. There's only one thing you need to be doing while you write: writing. Notepad lets me do that with total lack of distraction.
Not extra tabs. I always keep at least two Notepad windows open whenever I'm writing. I shrink them down and then stack them so each of them takes up 50% of the height of the screen. I use the top window to hold my planning files (outline, write out, research, whatever I need) and then the draft I'm working on in the bottom window.
When my plans are right there, I don't have to switch between windows. Eliminates more distractions and makes writing a breeze. And when I'm doing a second draft, I've got both of them right there. Couldn't do it any other way.
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 17:06:48 GMT
Ah I see what you mean. I tend to do that with my notebooks. I have one for all my layouts. I bullet point major points, conflicts, characters points, and random dialogue that I want to remember. Then I have another journal for random updates or random writing. It serves as a draft and then when I transfer it to word I'm adding onto it if I need to as well as proofing it.
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Post by tigress on Apr 28, 2015 17:45:54 GMT
Haha well admittedly I don't know a lot about programs etc, but I do prefer to write in Notepad because, as Zoni put it, there is the lack of distractions. I can't stop and check word count or fix typos, there are not glaring red lines any time I type a Korean name, etc. =) It lets me just focus and go. |
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 18:03:22 GMT
Sadly I actually need the distraction. Notepad would make me anxious since I know I'm a bad speller.
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 18:04:06 GMT
As for the Korean names I've added them to my dictionary and made auto capitalize for them all. *nods*
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Post by tigress on Apr 28, 2015 18:05:25 GMT
I added mine into the dictionary back when I used Word, but then I hit too many, I guess? Because it said my dictionary was full. >.<
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 18:13:35 GMT
Wow. Just wow. There should be a way to edit that.
I love my notebooks the most.
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Post by tigress on Apr 28, 2015 18:41:59 GMT
Well... now I use notepad so no more worrying about the dictionary. LOL. =D
But yes it was so frustrating!!!
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 18:44:37 GMT
I bet it was. And hey if it work ot works.
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Post by Zoni on Apr 28, 2015 18:49:28 GMT
I actually have a tale of caution to issue about MS Word.
So I was spell checking one of my fics, right. Gravity, the ebook format. 117k words, 336 pages. And halfway through it, I discovered this:
Donghocture
I stared at it for a solid two minutes, trying to figure out what the fuck had happened. And I couldn't figure it out. One of my beta readers solved the mystery for me. Since Dongho resigned from UKISS, I decided to remove him. I replaced him with Jun. Later, I realized that Jun wouldn't work for some of the dialogue/actions I had given Dongho originally, so I switched it back. And despite the fact that I had clicked "whole word only" for Jun to Dongho's word replacement, it had replaced every single instance of the letters jun in my story with Dongho.
Every. Single. One. And apparently that was fairly frequent.
*facedesk*
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Post by tigress on Apr 28, 2015 18:56:16 GMT
LMAO nice. =D I had that happen once though I can't remember what name it was... it was one that showed up in so many other words, though, and it was a bitch to clean up >.<
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Post by kaseyslove on Apr 28, 2015 19:01:24 GMT
I guess I like to make myself misrible. I do name changes by hand. O.o
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Post by Zoni on Apr 28, 2015 19:03:45 GMT
Kevin's name appears 754 times in Gravity. There's a reason I don't do manual name changes.
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