Cool writing sites and programs I'd like to share:
Scrivener: My go-to writing program for long pieces. Back when I was just a beginning writer, I would have a folder littered with dozens of documents: documents dedicated to individual characters, chapters (yay, early days of fanfiction), and outlines. Now that is all kept in one neat little file. It opens fast and you can go down a rabbithole with all the different bells and whistles. What's also nice is that once you buy the license (so long as you stay in the same operating ecosystem; if you switch from Windows to Mac, you'll have to drop money to get a license), it's yours forever. I've had to reinstall this program on multiple different computers, and I've never had any issues with it.
yWriter: A freeware version of Scrivener I used back in college, though I think this predates it by a decade? I've linked to a program review site to give people a better idea of what it looks like. I haven't used it in a while, but for what it was, I really found it helpful.
LibreOffice | OpenOffice: Freeware word processors. I've used both, and they're both pretty good! IIRC, one is a fork of the other, which more or less means they share the same DNA. LibreOffice, from what I understand, updates a bit more often than OpenOffice. Either way, both are miles better than whatever bullshit Microsoft Word is pushing, and I'm unfortunately up-to-date with it thanks to my office job.
Scrivener: My go-to writing program for long pieces. Back when I was just a beginning writer, I would have a folder littered with dozens of documents: documents dedicated to individual characters, chapters (yay, early days of fanfiction), and outlines. Now that is all kept in one neat little file. It opens fast and you can go down a rabbithole with all the different bells and whistles. What's also nice is that once you buy the license (so long as you stay in the same operating ecosystem; if you switch from Windows to Mac, you'll have to drop money to get a license), it's yours forever. I've had to reinstall this program on multiple different computers, and I've never had any issues with it.
yWriter: A freeware version of Scrivener I used back in college, though I think this predates it by a decade? I've linked to a program review site to give people a better idea of what it looks like. I haven't used it in a while, but for what it was, I really found it helpful.
LibreOffice | OpenOffice: Freeware word processors. I've used both, and they're both pretty good! IIRC, one is a fork of the other, which more or less means they share the same DNA. LibreOffice, from what I understand, updates a bit more often than OpenOffice. Either way, both are miles better than whatever bullshit Microsoft Word is pushing, and I'm unfortunately up-to-date with it thanks to my office job.
Written? Kitten!: A cute little in-browser writing app that rewards you with images of kittens for ever set number of words you write.
4thewods: A cute writing-based RPG recommended to me by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
musekicker. I haven't yet explored it, but it kind of reminds me of an MMO version of a similar writing browser-based RPG I used to use.
