Your quills and inkwells

[MyBareTorso]

I dictate my stories to one of the women in my harem, who then uploads...oh, sorry, dreaming again...I write in Word, and then copy and paste into the submission box. I doont yoose any complexx spel chek softwaore....

 

[StillStunned]

I think many older people are horrified about someone writing on their phone, but it seems natural to me. And it’s always with me, so I can write in any gaps that open up in my day.

Michael McIntyre has a funny bit about playing thumb war with his son:

(Starts at about 2.45.)

 

[EmilyMiller]

Michael McIntyre has a funny bit about playing thumb war with his son:

(Starts at about 2.45.)

At work - will look later

 

[tenyari]

My method is pretty unremarkable.

• Usually I write on my PC at home. When I do, I tend to turn the Wi-Fi off. If I need to search things up, I go and get my phone, but with Wi-Fi disabled I can be much more productive and get less sidetracked.
• I write into Google Docs. I've never had any issues with this, and it lets me write across devices (on my MacBook if I want to) to my heart's content.

I didn't realize Google Docs had offline capability.

I use Libre Office.

It does lack all those grammar and 'this would be a better sentence than that' tools. But given all the AI detection software going on right now making mistakes is probably a good thing.

I've got it set to avoid all those things like em-dashes, special quotes, and so on. If it can't be written in old fashioned ASCII text and display on a 1970s green terminal, it's not the right format for me. This because I post on 3 different sites and so I want a neutral format to the content.

 

[Not2Pervy]

I’m kind of shocked that apparently nearly nobody writes in Google Docs, then saves the finished story as .docx (Word equivalent), and just uploads the file to Lit. It’s so simple. As far as I can see there’s only a very minimal sacrifice in fancy formatting I could get using html, and the need to remember to use three hyphens to create an em-dash. The only grammar or spelling check I use is the suggested changes that pop up in docs, which I ignore as often as I accept. I do let the occasional typo slip through. Sorry about that to those who are picky about such things.

 

[mrs_mackenzie]

I’m kind of shocked that apparently nearly nobody writes in Google Docs, then saves the finished story as .docx (Word equivalent), and just uploads the file to Lit. It’s so simple. As far as I can see there’s only a very minimal sacrifice in fancy formatting I could get using html, and the need to remember to use three hyphens to create an em-dash. The only grammar or spelling check I use is the suggested changes that pop up in docs, which I ignore as often as I accept. I do let the occasional typo slip through. Sorry about that to those who are picky about such things.

This is what I do, pretty much exactly. Messing around with formatting all day is tedious and, as a reader, stories littered with bold and italics and whatever else is just distracting.

GDocs is online/offline, I can use it on my phone or the computer, it auto-saves reliably and it's easy to use. Not sure there's really anything else I want.