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> it's ideas and sitting down in front of the keyboard and actually typing This is the crux of the challenge for every writer. At least for me, I use "finding
by michaericalribo 6y ago
> it's ideas and sitting down in front of the keyboard and actually typing
This is the crux of the challenge for every writer. At least for me, I use "finding the right tool" as a way to procrastinate from actually writing...
- therealdrag0 6y agoYeah and "building my own editor that's just right for me" is a tempting next level procrastination.
- em-bee 6y agoi wrote my story in plain text in vim. when i was forced to convert to libre office in order to produce the format required for submission, editing became a pain, and i felt blocked from working on the story any further, since i no longer was able to just take any break i had to work on it. not being able to use my preferred editor, i too ended up searching for a better solution...
- michaericalribo 6y agoWhat a pain! And there don't seem to be any good + easy answers... I'm addicted to my emacs bindings, and not using them trips me up—I might as well draft in plaintext, like you said preferred editor minimizes friction. But then there's the cost of switching tools at different stages of the writing process. Arguably, that's even more difficult!
- em-bee 6y agothe editing itself wasn't even the problem, but i realized that i want to track changes as the story evolves, and while i know that libreoffice can do that, there is just no comparison to text based version control systems. if i had accepted that i would be comfortable enough with libreoffice, that would have been fine, but having to face switching back and forth, and continuously reformatting, made me dread the whole process. so yes, switching is really the most difficult aspect. fortunately, as discussed elsewhere here, there is a way to automatically convert from plain text to the format required for submission, so i should be able to continue writing without this roadblock now