Recently I decided to start writing a science fiction novel. I reserved a desk in my room for this purpose, I also picked up an old Thinkpad X200 on which I installed Lubuntu 24.04 and plugged in a gaming keyboard for night writing. I chose to install a minimum of applications in order to stay focused.
My main writing App for the moment is Joplin
And you?
Are you writing a book or have you already written one?
What type of tool do you use to write?
Do you have some advice to share?
I write quite a bit, I have a laptop running Arch Linux (btw), and I use Scrivener for writing. It’s a Windows app but it runs perfectly fine under Wine.
As for advice: sometimes I get caught up on the opening line, so to combat this I deliberately try to just write the worst opening line I can possibly think of. It gets it out of the way, and then whatever you write after that will feel like an improvement. Then you can just go back and fix it later once you know what the thing’s actually about.