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[Star Ranger4]

I honestly don't think I've done any writing in anything but a forum reply box or the plain text editor that comes with Ubuntu (Mousepad, I think?) since... um, probably when my old PDA finally died, 2012ish? Thinking back, getting a laptop back in the mid-noughties was when my writing output fell off a cliff too. I know it's weird, but I actually got the most fic writing done tapping a stylus on a portrait-mode 240x320 handheld, to the point it wore little dots in the screen where the keyboard got displayed. Maybe because the minimalist interface let me concentrate on what I was doing rather than coordinating two hands and moving them around to reach all the keys? Or just the inability to switch back and forth to a web browser and get distracted moment-to-moment

But the point is, if your tools are getting in the way, perhaps try a different tool? Word processors have some nice features for error checking and word/page counts, but if you write in something simpler first you can always open it in one later for subsequent passes, and doing so may even help (to adapt your most recent fragment) look at the text with heaven's eyes, to spot various things you'd normally gloss over because your brain knows what you mean and patches up what you actually wrote in your own perception. I know I constantly see things that make me wonder how I could possibly have missed them after posting something, sometimes just from the different window width changing where it wraps from one line to the next.

Concur, CD.  This was kind of my point, that when I thought of something I thought might be, in my eyes 'REALLY (DELETED) COOL' regardless of how spell-check or whatever the heck it is that generate the word wrap?  yeah.  was really afraid that the technicalities of how that happened would...  is denegrate really the right word?  Lessen, perhaps... what. at that moment, I thought of as a crowning moment of awsome. (where is that wounded emoji?  another app???  Oh bloody hell...*)