Favorite Application

[McCovey Cove]

What word processing application do you use to write fanfic?

I originally used Bank Street Writer for the Commodore 64 way back in the early days. Then I moved to DOS and used WordPerfect. Then I moved to Windows and used Microsoft Works before making the transition to Microsoft Word. I've been using Word ever since, and my current version is 2k7.

-- ZC

 

[Lilith]

Oh, I remember DOS and Wordperfect... my first schoolpapers, hehe.

I just switched from Word2003 to Word2007 and although I still have to figure out the location of some buttons and stuff, I quite like it. Looksvery nifty.

When putting stories in PDF I usually go through InDesign first to mess around with layout, colours and pictures

 

[Gibraltar]

I've been writing with Word for years now, and all my fanfic has been completed in that format. Got a new laptop for Christmas, and started using the Word 2007 program, only to have it freeze me out. I discovered that it was a friggin' trial offer, and they wanted me to shell out $130 for the real deal. So, now I'm using the computer's 'backup' Microsoft Works Word Processor program. Seems to do the trick, and it's a lot less of a headache to navigate than Word '07 is.

 

[TheLoneRedshirt]

Back when dinosaurs ruled the Earth . . .
. . . an old, but serviceable Underwood Manual typewriter in basic black. Heavy son of a gun! Then a Smith-Corona Electric (did my Masters work on it) followed by a Panasonic portable (fried by a power surge ).

When I started in computers, my first app was Lyrix (the computer version of a stone and chisel!), then PFS:Write (remember that one, boys and girls?), and the various permutations of Word. Currently, I use Word '07.

 

[Mistral]

Um, what's a typewriter? Seriously, I started on a Selectric, then a Selectric II(God I'm old!) then Works and now Word2003. I've fiddled with other stuff but never mastered anything else.

 

[Admiral2]

There was a time when I would have laughed heartily and made sport of you if you had suggested I use a word processor other than my beloved WordPerfect.

Then i got a new computer and tried to load WP and it wouldn't support the app, so now i use Word. (Heavy sigh)

 

[DavidFalkayn]

Let's see...I can remember typing my undergraduate pro-seminar paper back in the day on a Sears manual typewriter back in the day--when cutting and pasting really meant cutting and pasting

My first computer app was Framework II, and boy that was a pain in the butt. Since then, I've used Lotus--meh...Word Perfect 5.1--my personal favorite, but these days pretty much use Word--not that I wouldn't ditch it if something better came along, but it's pretty much the standard now...

 

[Gibraltar]

Yeah, I loved WordPerfect... I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the Word age.

 

[Count Zero]

I use OpenOffice in its current version 2.3. I have used it since 1.0. It's open source and I prefer it over the Microsoft products. The word processing part of it is simply called "Writer". The last Word I used was Word 97. When I got a new computer in 2001 with WinXP on it it didn't feel right to install this old software so I looked for alternatives. It's free so I tried it and have grown attached to it in the mean time.

 

[BrotherBenny]

When I started writing it was on pen and paper, what a great application that was then I moved on to my grandfather's ancient word processor, then onto Amiga with Kindwords; from there it was windows 3.1 with whatever version of word was being used. I've since been through a dozen computers and versions of windows. I now use Word 2007 on my new Lenovo R61 Thinkpad.

 

[Lilith]

When I started writing it was on pen and paper, what a great application that was

I actually still use pen and paper a lot. For one because it's easy to take along, but also because it looks like I'm actually taking notes during classes, which I am

 

[McCovey Cove]

When I started writing it was on pen and paper, what a great application that was

I actually still use pen and paper a lot. For one because it's easy to take along, but also because it looks like I'm actually taking notes during classes, which I am

As much as I think writing on pen and paper would be awesome, my scrawl can't keep up with my brain. It's like being forced to drive in first gear while merging onto a very high speed traffic lane. Typing, on the other hand, allows me to think at 120wpm, which is much closer. So, I can't not have a laptop or computer around while I'm writing

-- ZC

 

[HyperionReborn]

I started with the classic medium of pen and paper, before I even considered doing something radical like posting my random teenage scribblings on the Net for all to see. I still do brainstorm on paper(as Lilith said, it's easy to take on campus with me, and it actually makes it look like I'm taking notes during lecture.) but I do all my actual writing on the computer. I started out in WordPad, but then I moved to Word 07.

 

[Lilith]

Well, since I dispise editing my work, writing on paper helps me in that aspect too, because it forces me to write slower and rethink what I've written when I'm copying it into the computer. I'd say about a quarter of all my fic was written on paper

 

[hellsgate]

Microsoft Word for my anthology stories & MS Paint for banners/headers.

 

[HyperionReborn]

Well, since I dispise editing my work, writing on paper helps me in that aspect too, because it forces me to write slower and rethink what I've written when I'm copying it into the computer.

I've done that too, but I hate having to write my stories twice more than I hate editing.