Where to Write

[Romy]

Obsidian user but not for this type of worldbuilding but some might find this interesting:

 

[Prince of Spires]

Personally. I like challenges but i dont have time for many of them.

If I were to venture a guess, I'd say this is a big reason why.

Writing already is my most time-consuming hobby. I don't have to go looking for more of it. Why write something for a writing challenge when I can also just add more words to my current WiP?

The other side probably is that many such ventures, like challenges and forum games depend on a small handful of people to keep them going. If you don't have those few people, then you're not getting them. Or to turn it round, if you want to have a story thread, with each poster continuing part of the tale, then just start and see where it goes. And accept that you'll do a lot or most of the writing of it. At least at the start until you get a few people joining in.

 

[pmmg]

If I were to venture a guess, I'd say this is a big reason why.

Writing already is my most time-consuming hobby. I don't have to go looking for more of it. Why write something for a writing challenge when I can also just add more words to my current WiP?

That pretty much my thought process as well. If I am going to write, I have my big story to do.

I think part of the issue is that much of MS's core membership are not new to the game, and they are all involved in a more professional style of writing. So, many of the core members wont participate, which kind of has the effect of letting it wither on the vine.

My lament is more that I am surprised that more people dont do this, even if they are not the veterans. In sites I have been on where contests were a regular thing, there was always in influx of new members putting up their stuff. I think part of this also has to do with lack of core member support, and the site not having a way to really post stories and show them off.

I dont know. For me, for many forum games, I feel that time is behind me now, and contests are not what I want to have most written, so...I will pass. But...I do also have a type of site spirit. I would generally like to see the site be successful and have a draw beyond all us grumpy old mem.

 

[xena]

Did not know that about Google Docs....

 

[Romy]

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And... Author Terms are not even in the "agree to all" terms... so no...

 

[Susannosaurus]

Hi everyone! I’m brand new here and not 100% sure on everything yet.

I was wondering where everyone does their writing? I’m quite happy using Google Docs, but my friend told me that they allow AI to use and learn from your work on there, which is something I’m opposed to.

Does anyone have other suggestions?

I've been using Microsoft Word 2007 since, probably, 2007, and I'm so used to it now I can't imagine doing the actual writing anywhere else.
As for planning, outlining, revising, and everything, I alternate between digital and paper tools, most of them very simple. I have briefly experimented with software aimed at writers and I find it interesting how other writers outline and work, but in the end, I find that every project requires a different approach anyway, and I'm the kind of person who needs a lot of flexibility, so I sort of create my own systems, and that's my happy place.
I feel like some systems are either restrictive or else they become merely a distraction from the real work. Like a painter who has so many colours to choose from that they never do any actual painting.