What do you guys use to write with on your computers/laptops?

haha haha!
He obviously let it calm down so he could take the pic and not be so overt about it.
I admire my morning wood every day. It's the only time it gets hard.

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I pack seven inches of steaming heat all day, every day, every hour, every minute

That's what happens when you read Hobbes

Everyone in the world has a bigger cock than me. I hate my life.

Don't talk to me about it, talk to the man who will give you the most fucking insane erections you have ever conceived of

It's gonna be a war of all against all in the pussy, dig? Babes will be begging for your Leviathan in their pond at all hours of the day

I don't have trouble with getting the bitches. I have trouble keeping my cock hard, or, if it gets hard, lasting longer than a minute
I will give Hobbes a read, I've tried everything else, why not this.

I use scrivener because I paid $45 for it like an assclown and don't want that money to go to waste.

I can't wait for death.

It's a sunk cost, you should not allow past investments to influence your future actions.

A keyboard.

LaTeX cool typing, easy formatting (once you know it) and very good for the editing process - since you read your pdf output as if its somebodyelse's work

>very good for the editing process - since you read your pdf output as if its somebodyelse's work

never thought about this, good tip

Libre Office. It's free.

Word, because it came for free with my laptop. Before that I used OpenOffice.

If you want to be an author you would use whatever is available.

Stop looking to excuses not to write.

vim

Pen and pencil

i use gdocs. it's not great by any means, but if you know what you're doing its nice. and i can at least jot down ideas from my phone without worrying about running low on space.

why is this thread have 21 responses...yamero
"WHAT DO YOU GUYS USE TO WRITE"
IDK GENUIS PAPER AND CRAYONS WHATEVER THE FUCK WE NEED TO

I do this, but the result is work that is scattered across different apps (not like I have a lot, but MS Word + notes [laptop and phone]) and online platforms (Google Docs) and physical notebooks

Nothing. I use a pen. I can't fucking write on a computer.

I'm the opposite. If I try to write longer texts longhand, I just end up focusing on the legibility of my handwriting, how tired my hand is, etc etc.

Microsoft Word Starter 2010

is that the one with the ads?
i knew someone who wrote a whole novel using that. it would have driven me loopy

Ads? Not that I know of. I'm presently editing my 5th book on it before I continue writing. It's a sequel so I'm making my first series! Not gonna lie... I am excite...

Notepad

I write poetry by hand because I find it easier to keep track of.

underrated post

Word, but I make sure the margins are Book sized before starting; nothing's more annoying than writing in essay format, plus it makes it easy to see how many pages you've written.

x61 and emacs
Although you can use a less autistic text editor.

Nice /out/ pic OP :D

>everyone claims to write
>nobody uses a quill, a pot of iron gall ink, and parchment paper

You are like little babies

Not to mention the fucking shoes. Did he sleep in the shoes? If not, why does he have a semi?

GNU Emacs and LaTex

Just get really good into meditation and doing Kegels. It's what I do when I wanna smash a really good puss

I've been doing kegels for years and it hasn't done anything for me

> (You)

Do you feel nervous about not being able to get an erection? If you are thinking about anything during sex it can fuck you up. The secret is being at the moment and being able to play with your "sexual energy", that's why I coupled Kegels with meditation.

A nice trick to get the hang of harnessing your sexual feelings is to get high, focus on that and try to masturbate without going for the cum, but rather trying to build it up in a crescendo. Once you get good at it it's like fucking playing an instrument, as goofy as it may sound.

I think it's something like
>get the feeling I'm about to cum while I'm inside
>go slower
>take cock out
>give her the greatest finger blasting she's ever had
>can't get hard or hard hard enough to go again unless something I have no idea what happens
>feel that she's pretty tight and worry the fact that I might have difficulty putting it in will make me lose an erection
>lose erection
Idk. I haven't cum with the last five different women I've been with. They all have. Two of them were this weird quivering like an alien being born which made me sort of sick.

Plan and first draft long hand on paper.
Second -> final draft on "write" (wri.tt). No internet. Just me, my desktop, a physical dictionary and my notes.

I just memorise it and then go back and retrieve chapters if and when i need to edit. I never need to go back to check something as it's already there in my memory. Takes some practice but I've got it down. If i was pushed to an estimation I'd probably say it would be about 230 of your physical pages.

I use Google Docs. Tried Scrivener.

i prefer wordpad because it handles carriage return / linefeed at the end of lines more gracefully. also free with windows. fast, reliable, doesn't have ads and has never given me any shit in twenty years of using it.

how do you handle search/replace when your editor convinces you to change your protagonist from a white lesbian named Ranatidinine to a black male named Aloysius?

Google Docs, because it's free and you don't have to worry about losing your work in some sort of storage fuck up. I also hide the toolbar and make chrome full screen.

I use a fuggin old thinkpad running gentoo, for writing I type my shit into a LaTeX document using vim and write a makefile to build to a pdf.

>which made me sort of sick

Sounds to me like you have some hang-ups about sex in general.

No. I marked a specific instance where I stated this girl was writhing and moaning and shit which made me think of an alien being born. Has nothing to do with anything outside of this one situation. In that post I did say two, only one was redolent of alien offspring.
On the whole, I don't think I enjoy sex at all. At least, I care very little about myself. I only want the other person to cum. Which I imagine is narcissistic in nature. Maybe you're right desu.

>Trekking in flat Vans

This guy gets it. Don't take the bait with the apple crowd. All you need is a computer that will run Word. I've burned through 3 second hand laptops and a brand new one in 10 years and those chumps are still sitting in Starbucks with their new shiny shit trying to "pound out the perfect paragraph" or whatever excuse they're using. You're either going to sit down and do the work or you aren't. You don't need a macbook to write. I'm on my 13th novel, I know what I'm talking about.

I use y-writer. Helps me organize my thoughts really well

Also if you can find an old version of Dana OmmWriter I'd recommend it for wetting poetry or other non structured emotional works

Just take some Kangaroos

Files, folders, and a text editor.

Please, unless you have a publisher youre writing for already with their specified format, keep your works in plain text. You can easily convert them later on.

This. FocusWriter is great.

Are you published? Any tips?

Self-publishing is easy as fuck, and it's better than Veeky Forums gives it credit for. Are you going to make money? Probably not, not right away at least, but if you work at it for months, preferably over a year, you'll slowly start making a small income. Or you can strike gold like J K Rowling did and become rich on your first one but don't hold your breath. Also, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone didn't sell well for the first few months. Just keep writing and don't let yourself get discouraged. At least not for long. I self-published 4 books in the past 5 months, and got a 5th one on the way which I think I might be able to have finished within a week if I can keep at it. No, I'm not making money yet, but I'm having a lot of fun writing. It gives me a sense of purpose, and a sense of purpose is sometimes all a man needs to feel like life is worth struggling through.

Oh, also, obviously, I'm not Gaskun.

What do you write about?

Write looks perfect and it's free for students apparently, thanks

choose lighter pens. That's what I do. You should never stop writing longhand

I write about whatever comes to mind. Sorry for not responding last night; I was drinking. First book is as realistic a take on zombie survival as I could have managed and also addresses aspects of cancerous 3rd wave feminism. Second book is basically an erotica that includes a female character with crippling social anxiety, PSAS/PGAD, and a rape fetish caused by quite a dark past. Third book is a little novelette basically filled with 'gun porn', essentially an action that is slightly post-apocalyptic, and the fourth book is a drama. The title itself is admittedly a bit melodramatic but as mentioned the book IS a drama and has a lot of shit going on in it even though it's only a novella. This fifth one is going to be a sequel to the first book; the zombie survival one.

Initially I wasn't sure if I took the right course of action with it, but I'm in the process of editing it and refreshing myself on how it's going (I wrote over 64,000 words sometime between late August to early September last year), and I'm quite liking it so far. Lots of grammatical issues that I have to fix since back then I still had some inherent problems in my writing but I've improved quite a bit since back then. Also, yeah, I've got a fast writing speed and can pump out words at a startling pace provided the ideas and imagery are forthcoming. Once I wrote 10,000 words within a roughly 6-hour period, and I think the most I wrote in a 24-hour period was 15,500. You know that drama novella I mentioned? Well it's nearly 29,000 words and I wrote it in about 4-5 days. Less than 100 hours in total. If I can finish this sequel in the month of March, then I will have self-published a novelette, a novella, and a novel within the month of March 2017. In that order.

If memory serves a novelette is between 3500-17,500 words, a novella is 17,500-40,000 words, and a novel is 40,000+. I've found such a passion in writing that I wish I'd have started working on books earlier, but then if I did that then they probably wouldn't have worked out quite as well as they have. I've been told I'm fairly good, even by a retired English teacher who is also a traditionally published author and has quite a passion for writing. He said that I should try traditional publishing; he's read stuff that has been traditionally published that wasn't written as well as my self-published stuff is. Anyways, writing is a lot of fun, and self-publishing really is easy. The hardest part is probably simply providing your banking info so that you can get paid if you manage to make some money.

did you always have a passion for writing? How did you end up writing? are you traditionally 'well read'?

I've been writing basically as a hobby since before I was a teenager. I've been wanting to write a really realistic and nitty-gritty zombie survival novel for years so finally did it last year. I wouldn't call myself 'well read', though I've read a lot between Spring 2012-Summer 2016. All in all, I probably read only 60 books or so, maybe 70 tops. Based on my writing, said English teacher thought that I had read a lot growing up, but the fact is I didn't. Most of my reading as a kid and teen was the Hatchet and Harry Potter series.

>I write about whatever comes to mind. Sorry for not responding last night; I was drinking. First book is as realistic a take on zombie survival as I could have managed and also addresses aspects of cancerous 3rd wave feminism. Second book is basically an erotica that includes a female character with crippling social anxiety, PSAS/PGAD, and a rape fetish caused by quite a dark past. Third book is a little novelette basically filled with 'gun porn', essentially an action that is slightly post-apocalyptic, and the fourth book is a drama. The title itself is admittedly a bit melodramatic but as mentioned the book IS a drama and has a lot of shit going on in it even though it's only a novella. This fifth one is going to be a sequel to the first book; the zombie survival one.

I'm sorry to be so negative, but all theseideas seem terrible to me. Zombie survival is a pleb filter, >cancerous 3rd wave feminism is topical zeitgeist shit, erotica have no artistic ambition

The only redeemable one is the "drama" novella, but only because you basically haven't said anything about it

All good; to each their own. I wrote that zombie novel for me, basically. I also threw in the 3rd wave feminism because that shit pisses me off. I think it turned out pretty good but it's not for everyone. Got a review of it though from someone who loves survivalism and zombie novels and things like that. He's written a lot of reviews for various books of the genre, not all of them positive, but gave me a gleaming 5 star review. He wasn't a huge fan of the sex it would seem, but loved the book none the less. Made me proud; there are at least some people out there who like the book, but for all I know, know of the people who read it dislike it. I simply don't know, but it's so far my 'best-selling' book, though really isn't selling all that well.

I think I did well in keeping a story with the erotica, and the female protagonist has quite a harsh past. Anyways, I'll leave that one alone for now. As for the drama novella, I'll go ahead and tell you what it's basically about.

There's a terrible marriage, a tall but somewhat lanky construction worker only got married to a longtime girlfriend a couple years ago. They can't conceive a child and though he's gotten himself checked by a doctor of his own accord, his wife is adamant that it's all his fault and refuses to even entertain the thought that she's the problem. She's already let herself go even though she's only 20. She's let herself go in a big way. Gaining weight, drinking heavily, stopped bathing, never did work but seemingly has no interest in ever doing so, meanwhile he's paying the bills with his construction job. Scaffolding specifically.

He avoids his home like the plague, and even when he goes back (usually at the end of the day after getting drunk) he just goes to sleep on the couch. The master bedroom is full of empty liquor bottles (mostly vodka), empty 2L soda bottles, and the like. A complete pig sty. He rarely manages to go a full day without being yelled at and/or physically abused by his wife. He knows if he divorces her that she'll take a lot of the things he's worked to get, and confides in a female bartender at the pub he frequents. They form a pretty close friendship, the issue of suicide is brought up, he meets a man who inspires him to just deal with the divorce no matter how fucked-over he ends up getting, then meets a retiree who has figured out a way to essentially not get fucked-over at all.

The divorce goes through, he doesn't lose much, his ex-wife ends up homeless, and the ending results in him being in a relationship with the older bartender, the woman's daughter who is almost as old as he is moves into their home because she hasn't seen her girl in a long time, he knocks her up even though she thought she couldn't get pregnant anymore, they get married, and the ex-wife ends up driving HIS truck that she got in the divorce into the side of their house while the family is in the front yard. Almost ran them over. Basically, the ending is pretty fucked up.

>tfw masturbated so much that my penis does not even bother getting hard in the morning anymore because it know that it will get masturbated anyway

Isn't this for programmers?

like vim?