That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. As Octavia Butler put it: “You don’t start out writing good stuff.
It requires good doses of commitment and perseverance.
Unlike saddling up on a Schwinn for the first time, however, writing a novel can’t be accomplished in one hot summer’s day.
I put all of the FocusWriter themes I have into a zip file because most of the sites hosting them have gone away.Much like learning to ride a bike, the best way to learn how to write a novel is by just doing it. I didn’t spend much time looking at it to see if something as simple as giving the empty document a file name such as “a.txt” would kick in the English language spell check or not. At least when you open it up to an empty document with the spell checking turned on it doesn’t seem to have any idea what to do. It has a Web preview function but the spell checking is less than intuitive.
Part of me is tempted to install BlueFish to write my blog posts. How did I find out the WordPress editor had support for this kind of formatting? By cutting and pasting from FocusWriter then noticing my justification and underscores all pasted in. When you switch back to visual you then see your paragraph is fully justified and the underscore word has an underscore. To get the word underscore displayed with an underscore as above, you have to put and tags around the word in the text edit screen.
To get full justification you need to change to. If you want either of these features you have to click the text tab then edit the raw HTML. Likewise, it has buttons for bold and italic, but not one for underscore. It has buttons for left, center and right justification, but none for full justification. I call it crummy because it is horribly annoying. That is because I meant to underline or otherwise highlight the word and I missed fixing that after pasting into the crummy WordPress editor. You may notice I sometimes have _ and _ around words in my posts. All of these links you see are a bunch of http addresses pasted into the document at some point after the paragraph they should go into. Other than applying full justification I don’t actually format the posts I create off-line.
If someone actually is the author and can prove it and they don’t want a particular free theme posted here they can reach me with a comment. I haven’t been able to find them posted anywhere for a long time. No idea just how long they will stay around: site 1, site 2, site 3, site 4 First, I will link you to some I just found. There used to be one site, which I can no longer find, that had my favorites. The trouble is, their sites are here today and gone tomorrow. There seems to be an army of one-off theme creators out there. It does not have much in the way of formatting which is fine. This is a wonderful full screen distraction free word processor supporting the OpenDocument format. About anything you could want to do to text, other than being able to actually _read_ it already has something built in or quickly obtainable to do it in that editor.Īs of late, since I haven’t had a KDE desktop in a while, I’ve been letting FocusWriter do the heavy lifting. Because it is written in Java with a simple plug-in/add-on API, every first year Java developer seems to have created one for it and they all seem to be listed when looking for one. It is a pig because it is written in Java and tries to be all things to everyone. Text editors work well for me, especially the ones with dynamic word wrap and spell-as-you-go typing which can be turned on/off.
If most of these seem like programming editors to you, please keep in mind I spent 30+ years as an IT consultant. Sometimes I will break down and use UltraEdit if I’m on a machine which doesn’t have FocusWriter installed. It definitely has the worst font rendering of any editor ever created. There was a brief and horrible period where I tried to use jEdit which is quite possibly the second largest pig of an editor in the world. Most of the time I create a rough draft of my posts on here using FocusWriter or KWrite.