Writing can take many forms now a days. Some prefer pen and paper and others prefer word processors. I am curious what !writing@beehaw.org uses for their own writing.

For me I have used Scrivener before but found it too powerful for my style of writing. I now find myself using Google docs since it can sync to so many places and I can write wherever I go. (If anyone has a FOSS Google docs alternative I am all ears)

So, !writing@beehaw.org, what is your software of choice? If you prefer pen and paper, what does your process look like?

  • Morgie@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never heard of Royal Road before, might check it out! That’s an interesting way to use discord as well I wouldn’t have thought of that.

    Also I love serial fiction, its such a fun format!

    • Zagaroth@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, my wife and I have a private section on my Discord server, we use it to send each other stuff and for our own reference.

      I started using RR last year because a serial story posted on Reddit posted a link to his story there, and I loved it. About three months later, I started writing and posting my own story there. It’s not a LitRPG so it’s not as popular as some stories, but approaching 900 followers so I am doing something right. :)

      • Morgie@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Thanks for the link! I’m definitely going to check it out.

        Have you ever heard of writefreely.org? I haven’t looked too deeply into it yet but I believe it’s a federated writing website. Could be another place to post to get grow your audience. But I do know how hard it is to add another site when you’re in a groove, so just thought I’d bring it up

        • Zagaroth@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Hmm, I’ll take a deeper look a bit later, but I am not sure how discoverable it makes your writing. That is one advantage of RR, it centralizes most of what I want. Once my revisions of Volume 1 are complete, I am going to throw the $50 at ads on RR (gets you a month of ads) and see if I get enough new followers who join my Patreon to justify doing it again. So far I have not spent any money on discoverability.

          • Morgie@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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            1 year ago

            That makes sense, I’m not sure if it’s more for blog writing or building a following. I am sure it has less discoverability than RR. And I love not spending on growth, so I feel you there