What software do you write your Trek novels in?

[Rat Boy]

I'm not a pro, but put me in for the Word crowd, Times at 12 pt. Outlines are done in Notepad just because I don't care about spelling and grammar and don't need those errors pointed out. My covers are done with Photoshop, using models from the game Star Trek Bridge Commander. A shame the TOS models for it out there aren't quite up to par with ones from the TNG era.

 

[Johnhead99]

No love for Helvetica font?

 

[Una McCormack]

Word, and revise with a pen.

This one is me. Hell, most of the time I use a pencil. Seriously. I love the scratching sound it makes on the paper.

I use a pencil a lot too. I like watching ink make a mark on paper (well, gel from a gel pen) and I like seeing it dry. And I like the physicality of forming words with a pen and my hand.

But most of the time I type

 

[BrotherBenny]

I write each chapter longhand and then type it up in OpenOffice. I don't trust MS Word any more (that, and I'm not shelling out the dough for it).

 

[NickInABox]

I wrote War & Peace with Pages.

I am Tolstoy, and I am a Mac.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I use MS Works' word processor and convert to Word files after. Times New Roman, 12-point.

Cos I fucking *hate* Word. Especially when you try to start a new paragraph and it wants to set it to all-indented...

 

[seigezunt]

Can't you change that setting? I don't seem to have that problem. But then I have MS Office 2007...

 

[JarodRussell]

I think you could change those settings even in the very first version of Word.

 

[AthanisTree]

A penniless, ex-student thumbs up for Abiword. Too many years of Word 97 (Shudders)...

No paper-clip, clean and simple, rarely crashes. Even remembers to use a UK Dictionary !

 

[Scott Pearson]

I'm on Macs. I do all my writing in NeoOffice, which is a port of OpenOffice that tries to be more Mac-ish. I've got it on my desktop and laptop. I got it because A) it's free and B) it's almost seamlessly compatible with MS Office.

 

[wizkid]

I'm on Macs. I do all my writing in NeoOffice, which is a port of OpenOffice that tries to be more Mac-ish. I've got it on my desktop and laptop. I got it because A) it's free and B) it's almost seamlessly compatible with MS Office.

NeoOffice is great. When OO3 came to Mac I hate to say it but I dumped NO for OO. I use NWP now though. However, NeoOffice was a good one I had forgotten about!

 

[Scott Pearson]

And it's free!

 

[S. Gomez]

I'm not a Trek author, nor really a professional one, but I'm writing a novel at the moment.

I'm on a Mac. I switched over to Scrivener from normal word processors because I make outlines and notes even while I'm writing, so I need them open to refer to. With a regular WP that can mean two or three big windows open all at the same time; with Scrivener it's one window that can change to different pages. I still import finished chapters and stories to Pages for printing and revising.

And of course I always have my trusty Moleskine notebook and pen when I'm out and about.