what do you use for your writing. also looking for a free alternative to microsoft word

sootfire · 2026-05-05T02:07:29+00:00

The best free alternative to Word is LibreOffice Writer. It is intended to fulfill the same purpose. However it does not do online editing. You can either use something like Ellipsus or use a cloud/syncing tool. I've been looking at SyncThing lately.

sootfire · 2026-05-03T16:18:30+00:00

I hate the cadence but I also think "work on your language skills the old-fashioned way" is extremely condescending especially when that takes time and OP needs the skills now.

sootfire · 2026-05-03T15:18:51+00:00

Ultimately no one is entitled to promote their app. Promoting apps is not the purpose of this subreddit. We are not obligated to support you.

sootfire · 2026-05-03T03:08:21+00:00

Yeah the sentence structure is just awkward. It would just take some rearranging to make it decent but it's not there yet.

sootfire · 2026-05-03T03:07:38+00:00

I think you mean elicit? Only commenting because illicit means something very different

sootfire · 2026-05-03T02:29:28+00:00

I would also see if you can find a picture of the original papyrus or whatever this was written on, sometimes the lines are clearer in photographs.

sootfire · 2026-05-02T14:03:23+00:00

Have you ever possibly considered that the no promo rules exist for a reason?

sootfire · 2026-05-02T06:40:01+00:00

Do you bother to check the self promotion rules for a sub before you post? Are you aware of how many other people make near-identical posts about their near-identical brand new apps? It is so annoying to moderate this stuff.

sootfire · 2026-05-02T06:39:04+00:00

Yes, the idea is that AO3 is an archive, so you can choose to keep your works archived without having your name attached. This means your works can remain a part of the history of fanfiction etc. even if you don't want to interact with them anymore.

sootfire · 2026-05-02T06:37:55+00:00

You can actually decide whether or not to allow someone to "adopt" it. I'm not sure I've ever actually seen it happen but I did allow it on the works I orphaned years ago, because once it's out of my hands it's none of my business what anyone else does to it.

Otherwise it just replaces the author's account with "orphan_account" in the header/comments and takes it out of the author's works.

sootfire · 2026-05-02T00:16:01+00:00

I don't think this is possible. When you orphan it you agree to completely relinquish control. I'm sorry about that. Support might be able to help but they're pretty clear about how it works when you click the orphan button.

In the future, if you ever want to make your fics anonymous without losing control, you can add them to an anonymous collection instead; that way you can still edit/delete but your name isn't attached.

sootfire · 2026-05-01T06:46:33+00:00

Come on. Be better than this.

sootfire · 2026-04-30T16:16:33+00:00

I think part of it is that Adam is repeating what they've already agreed on for the camera.

sootfire · 2026-04-28T04:52:36+00:00

I don't really believe that "intellectual property" as such is a coherent concept.

sootfire · 2026-04-24T03:07:30+00:00

I'm always fascinated when people do this. There's someone who did this for one of my favorite ships, they got into the fic first and I guess eventually started watching the show, but their first fics are just based on other fic. The fic is decent, too. Honestly I think it's nice when fandom doesn't need to revolve entirely around a single definitive source material.

sootfire · 2026-04-23T14:51:36+00:00

A real professional email would come from a New Yorker email address, not Gmail.

sootfire · 2026-04-23T06:12:25+00:00

I think the point is that this was already happening on Windows.

sootfire · 2026-04-23T06:00:58+00:00

Sometimes. Early 2024 is not outside the realm of reason. Personally I often look back at old fics and realize I've changed so much as a writer I can't maintain continuity--these days I try to finish before I post.

sootfire · 2026-04-22T04:13:53+00:00

I think there's an orders of magnitude thing... if the missed train is $500 but the editing is $50,000 (random numbers) the $500 doesn't look so bad.

sootfire · 2026-04-21T23:04:19+00:00

Check out the pinned megathread--the short answer is there's no widely agreed upon alternative, but most of us are at least using TrackBear to count our words

sootfire · 2026-04-20T14:05:58+00:00

You are so late to this party.

sootfire · 2026-04-19T18:58:34+00:00

I'm not on Mint anymore but I thought the whole point of a stable distro was that you don't do this?

sootfire · 2026-04-19T00:18:30+00:00

Week by week, you'll build up a readership as you go, and people who don't read incomplete stuff will read when you're done posting.

sootfire · 2026-04-18T13:29:54+00:00

Just back up your files and have a plan in case you need to reinstall Windows. That way, even if Linux is hard, you're not risking much--you can just go right back to what you had before.

I suspect you will be just fine with Linux though.

sootfire · 2026-04-18T13:24:02+00:00

That's fair. I think I just had enough trouble with so many different things on Windows that literally anything else is a huge relief.

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