Story authors

I used Open Office. It's similar to Word, but it's free and open source.

Gonna try that on a non-fetish story I'm struggling with. See what happens.

This is how I revise! I write/draft in one font and revise and edit in another.

This former graphic design major's eye just twitched. For the love of god, anything but comic sans. 😆

It might just be a personal thing.

I have problems with my vision, problems with my attention span, and I'm autistic.

Ans somehow when I'm working with a bold obnoxious font it makes me think twice about my writing, engages my attention, and all of the sudden I can see.

It's also very well-supported.

Thanks for all of the replies!! Gonna look into Google Docs and Open Office.

I have used Libre Office - www.libreoffice.org - it is the closest you will get to MS Office, and it's totally free.

I use Scrivener for story-writing, but for basic word-processing, I like TextMaker, which is a free Microsoft Word clone. You do have to pony up an email address so they can send you an activation code, but otherwise it costs nothing.

It's just like any hack; YMMV. But it seems to work for a lot of people. If you look it up, you'll find a lot of people making this claim for years.

The common explanation is that it's just easy to read, with every letter having a distinct, unconventional, but legible form; it even helps people with dyslexia. Conversely, some people argue that its benefits come from its strangeness, even illegibility; you pay attention to it more easily because it's unfamiliar.