LibreOffice by far.

>>15755
Worth noting that it's still in beta, or at least it was the last time I checked.
For all intents and purposes it's still openoffice, though is worth using now purely out of principle.

>>15756
I do enjoy LibreOffice. It's a nice overall environment. OpenOffice is nice too. However, I prefer a more streamlined writing utility than a full-featured office suite word processor. I work with simple RTFs mainly, and I've found that I write better in a less clunky processor. Any suggestions?

I use abiword. I'm writing here to recommend that you don't use it. I switched openoffice for abiword because I needed the page number in the header, which OO didn't offer (some years back). Now I have enough abi documents to make upgrading too much work because I would have to change them all to formats that other things can read, and nothing can read the normal abi format.

So what I guess I'm trying to say is: don't use abiword.

>>15757
i tried a bunch and FocusWriter is easily my favorite
- small footprint
- full screen mode, customizable
- tabs for multiple files
- timer
- available for linux, windows, and mac

Lately I've been using Evernote. The interface is simple and I can write anywhere.

I like Celtx. Its original purpose it for screenplay writing, but it comes with a simple text editor that allows you to use index cards and annotations. Oops, forgot. You can also break certain parts of your writing into chapters.

It also has this category system thing to organize your characters, although that only really works with the script editor. Reguardless, it's useful. I'm still discovery new things on this program.

Runs on all platforms.

I just use Google Docs, along with the Chrome OS default offline text app Scratchpad. Can't wait till Docs gets a proper offline version though.

I use Google Docs and LibreOffice offline.

I wish Google would just stop using their special file format with Google Drive.

iA writer. Clean. Basic. Keeps me on point. I compile in word. Each sitting warrants a new iA writer file.

I find it best to start with a simple text editor (like Kate, Pluma, Gedit)so that you can edit on any device, share with other writers, and then use a Word Processor to clean it up (such as OpenOffice, LibreOffice [my choice]), and then finalize the work with software such as Scribus to format and ship.

This of course is my preferred method, and that of other writers.

Lyx.

>>15754
I prefer LaTex.
It needs some time to get used to it and you will have to read documentation, but it's powerfull and you can build up bigger documents in way more modular fashion.
Often it's possible to sparate layout and content.
And i can use my favorite little text editor o work with it.
I'm a programmer, that's maybe why LaTeX suits me more than every other textprocessing software.

Scrivener.
Writeroom.
Q10.
Schreiben.

I just found this thing called Twine today.

http://www.gimcrackd.com/etc/src/

It's for writing branching stories like the old Choose Your Own Adventure books, but outputs to html. The software is free.

I'm still reading the documentation, but it looks simpler than the various interactive fiction engines. I can see some use for writing alternate paths and constructing chapters, but probably not very useful for writing novels.

Just something to tinker with, I think.

>>16222
this is very cool. i don't write alot, but watching a couple of these videos, makes me want to. i miss those old choose your own adventure books. and love the idea of a short story you can progress and hop between characters' point of view.

About a year ago, I made the move from OpenOffice to LibreOffice. I like that I can use these suites on both Windows and Linux machines. I still keep OpenOffice around for the Word Art function (which is actually pretty damn nifty), but I use LibreOffice for 95% of writing and editing.

Emacs

>>16251
vi

Notepad++ with a ton of plugins.

>>16256
dont use notpad++, use gedit, with a ton of programs.

>>16257
>programs
plugins*

scrivener is buggy as fuck

would not hit

gEdit
- Word-wrap
- Black background
- Green Text
- Charcoal Edge
- White linecount
- Fullscreen

>>15754
Microsoft word you fucking idiot hipsters.

>>16396
Word attempts to focus the user on writing 'correctly' not on writing content.

For finishing up it's fine but for the bulk and draft something simple and non-intrusive is normally a better option.

Another vote for vi / LaTeX. It doesn't get much simpler in terms of writing.

I've heard good things about Scribus as well; open source / multiple platform page layout.

And another vote for Emacs.

Note that both Vi & Emacs may be made as complex as you want. If you just want to pound out words to the page without various crap getting in your way a minimalist install of either will do nicely.