Writing Software

Sure I know most of you use Microsoft Word to smash out any form of fiction on a computer, but have you ever considered scanning in pages? Or have you considered using another text program? Or in the case of blogs do you just hammer out the story with in the box of you posting script? Wel since I was reading a bit about the ideas on the CBC Fanfic peoples that I have in my link the topic of open source literature or fiction came up so I thought I would post some open source text writing software so we can bathe in the wonders of freedom. Or whatever.

http://www.abisource.com/

Probably my favourite. It is a stand alone text program in which you can save multiple file extensions like .doc and .txt that are common with programs. It also is the closest I have seen to actually matching Word's on the fly spell checker, which is ever so handy!

openoffice.org

The grandaddy of open source office software. It comes built in to many linux builds like ubuntu and is probably the program responsible for the new .docx extension the new that bloody MS Office uses for Office 2007 that not only screws over anyone using some of these great bits of free software, but also those who do not have a windows based computer. Anyways, open office is a huge multi faceted open source office sweet that is just as powerful as MS Office. The only drawback is that it does not have those on the fly spell checkers and grammar checkers. You know the ones that give you squiggly green and red lines under certain words as you write? However, as a free piece of software one simply can not complain. Sure we all download illegitimate OG bootlegs of Office anyway, but why not support open software like this? Go check them out!