Which software do you guys use for writing? I tried shaxpir and it sucks because it wont let me export my book. I also tried focus writer and y writer. What do you guys recommend? Just notepad or msword? I have a macbook btw
>>24104229I use scrivener. It’s really handy to write each chapters, having multiple work in progress of each and keeping tabs on the corners for things you want to put in the chapter.Also you can crack it easily.
>>24104229Google Docs. I want to be able to work on my manuscript from anywhere, all I need is a phone kick stand and Bluetooth keyboard. I wrote half my last novel in the bagel shop where I take my lunch break. I know, absolutely uncivilized work process.
>>24104229gedit. i dont want my psyche stored in corpoprison
pen and paper
>>24104229test
>>24104702Test of what?
>>24104229a massgrave'd version of ms word
Obsidian
vim
Doesn't matter at all. Whatever works for you. Same with editing.Just write.
>>24106716Best advice
>>24104229Jira, git, linux. I break up my novel into epics, stories and tickets and set up a scrum board with a set of sprints. Pages are developed in branches and merged in al la gitops, with one production release every sprint. If I want to work anywhere else, I just git pull from the repo. The goal is to adapt rapidly to the taste and demands of the reading market to produce optimal slop.
emacs
>>24104229>Which software do you guys use for writing?Chat-GPT, sometimes Claude, Gemini for references only.
>>24104229I'm almost out of my 20s and the eldest of the Gen Z , I've seen all the apps and even became a codemonkey and contributed to some of these things myself. These days , I see these apps for the bloated parasites they are and despise anything that isn't george RR martin tier autism (he uses wordstar 4.0 / DOS) -- it just makes so much fucking sense , why do you fucking need scene managers and character menus and index cards and all the other shit scrivener gives you. Keep some files in some folders Full screen notepad or text editor of choice for pure flow, save the word doc when its time to edit / publish.
I would really suggest keeping a dedicated writing machine , I bet good money that macbook is your school / work / everything device and you just wanna jam everything in there. That's fine. But I bought a shitty nothing notebook and use it strictly for writing - way better cause it trains your brain to associate that machine with one thing and one thing only.
LaTeX. It's very easy to use, unless you're a midwit. It lets me format my book the way I want it, and then with an extra line of code I can export it as an epub instead of a pdf.
