Thinking of writing again

[live4thebj]

I am thinking of writing again. But I am looking for something to that will work on an Apple computer that doesn't require a yearly fee. Something like Word but without Word prices. I would purchase a copy of Microsoft Office but it seems like your only choice these days is the 365 Suite.

What do you Apple users write with?

 

[Emotional]

Cant you just use google docs?

 

[live4thebj]

Cant you just use google docs?

I was considering it but don't want to use my standard GMAIL account; I don't want any obvious ties to me and this place. The long list of bookmarks is bad enough on my Reading list of my laptop and iPhone. If I were to ever die and someone got a hand on my phone they would know my dirty little secret world call Literotica and of course Pornhub.

I'll go see if my handle is free on GMAIL.

 

[Euphony]

Few understand price sensitivities like I do but I would suggest, for the money, Scrivener for Mac I begrudgingly found indispensable.

There is a very fair trial (30 counted days when you boot it up to do work, not 30 calendar days transpiring/getting eaten up when other life demands take precedence)

Having drowned in trials/tutorials of untold number of products, I would offer your chosen tool will be very personal. I seem to prioritize organization and flexibility which Scrivener is very much built around. Were I more into the functional word side of things, the learning curve cost analysis/benefit wouldn't work for me.

Google Docs is wonderful having some rollback tools and "anywhere I am, I can write through my phone" enticement/support. Also free.

Word works for those steeped in it from other work they've done. Doesn't click with me other than to format work I've done elsewhere to a universal state *most* can handle.

Options abound. Focus less on finding the perfect one through other's suggestions and more towards filtering what you need/what features support your style/organization while writing.

Then learn your chosen tool.

That's the process that lead to the biggest tool influenced growth I've had in my writing.

 

[stickygirl]

Use any software that currently works on your Mac, then save it as a RTF file and cut n paste it when you submit. Don't be a slave to Mac updates. I'm still happily using El Cap and Microsoft 2011 for most of my stuff.

 

[tenyari]

Libre Office is free to download and install.

Otherwise, google docs with a new gmail.

 

[AlinaX]

Use any software that currently works on your Mac, then save it as a RTF file and cut n paste it when you submit. Don't be a slave to Mac updates. I'm still happily using El Cap and Microsoft 2011 for most of my stuff.

I have updated a whole bunch of Macs lately, to the point I'm quite sick of Yosemite. I love the name Catalina, and used that on my main Mac for years before a crash forced me to finally install the latest.

I used to use iA Writer on my Mac and iPad (now so old its only use is to play music), but Google docs is what I use these days.

 

[MrPixel]

A current Mac? What's wrong with Pages? Comes with the computer and if you don't have it already is free on the App Store. It's easy to use and reads and writes MSWord files, in .doc and .docx format. LitE does fine with .doc files. It's my go-to on a MacBook Air when I'm away from home.

Personally I would stay the hell away from Google anything related to my erotica writing. They are experts in connecting the dots. If you're thinking you can hide behind a second Gmail account, think again. They know.

 

[NotWise]

Libreoffice is available for macOS. You can get it here. That includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and a database tool. Check the compatibility requirements.

You can also get it from the mac store, but whoever is offering it wants $9 and there are license limitations. I thought Libreoffice was released under a license that prevented that, but I may be wrong. Or that might explain why the app store download version has a load of 1* ratings.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I was considering it but don't want to use my standard GMAIL account; I don't want any obvious ties to me and this place. The long list of bookmarks is bad enough on my Reading list of my laptop and iPhone. If I were to ever die and someone got a hand on my phone they would know my dirty little secret world call Literotica and of course Pornhub.

I'll go see if my handle is free on GMAIL.

If I may digress a bit. Unless you have certain religious beliefs, there is one advantage to your own passing. You no longer have to worry about what other people think of you.

 

[gunhilltrain]

A current Mac? What's wrong with Pages? Comes with the computer and if you don't have it already is free on the App Store. It's easy to use and reads and writes MSWord files, in .doc and .docx format. LitE does fine with .doc files. It's my go-to on a MacBook Air when I'm away from home.

Personally I would stay the hell away from Google anything related to my erotica writing. They are experts in connecting the dots. If you're thinking you can hide behind a second Gmail account, think again. They know.

I use to write on a Mac (a 2003 model!) and then convert to Word files. About one time in six, it would fail and I'd have to do it again. (Surprising the machine still worked at all.) I didn't know Apple still offered that conversion ability. It certainly doesn't work the other way around.

I'd worry about gmail maybe if I still had an employer, but I don't now. Or if I was going to be a mass shooter. I stumbled upon pieces of the Nikolas Cruz (Parkland) trial, and there is a cop in the witness box reading off his gmail phone messages. It's not like they couldn't nail him with the ton of other evidence they had, like he just walked out and went to Subway and then McDonald's immediately afterwards.

 

[Euphony]

If I may digress a bit. Unless you have certain religious beliefs, there is one advantage to your own passing. You no longer have to worry about what other people think of you.

The individual author may not have consequences but there can be collateral damage as many of us live in a puritanical society and ostracization can drift/infect those who were close to us "b/c surely they knew."

Non-sensical but much of how we treat each other these days is.

 

[ronde]

When I was running a Linux system, I used OpenOffice. It comes as a suite with clones of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. It's not identical to any of them, but it's close enough there's really no learning curve and it's free. It was available for OS when I used it. I've never had a Mac so I don't know how it would work.

 

[alohadave]

I'd worry about gmail maybe if I still had an employer, but I don't now. Or if I was going to be a mass shooter. I stumbled upon pieces of the Nikolas Cruz (Parkland) trial, and there is a cop in the witness box reading off his gmail phone messages.

With a warrant, any email can be accessed. If you are suspected of committing a crime and they think you used email to do it, they will be reading through it.

 

[MrPixel]

A warrant is one thing, the "handing over per a request" is another. Google's policy as I understood it is cooperation, though that may have changed. Same goes for Google Drive, Google Docs, and so on and so forth. Don't be storing your kiddie porn on Google Drive!

 

[Lorelei907]

Few understand price sensitivities like I do but I would suggest, for the money, Scrivener for Mac I begrudgingly found indispensable.

There is a very fair trial (30 counted days when you boot it up to do work, not 30 calendar days transpiring/getting eaten up when other life demands take precedence)

Having drowned in trials/tutorials of untold number of products, I would offer your chosen tool will be very personal. I seem to prioritize organization and flexibility which Scrivener is very much built around. Were I more into the functional word side of things, the learning curve cost analysis/benefit wouldn't work for me.

Google Docs is wonderful having some rollback tools and "anywhere I am, I can write through my phone" enticement/support. Also free.

Word works for those steeped in it from other work they've done. Doesn't click with me other than to format work I've done elsewhere to a universal state *most* can handle.

Options abound. Focus less on finding the perfect one through other's suggestions and more towards filtering what you need/what features support your style/organization while writing.

Then learn your chosen tool.

That's the process that lead to the biggest tool influenced growth I've had in my writing.

Google Docs is useful but all of the apps don’t have many of the features Microsoft has and even the spell checker is limited. I don’t care for it.

I have and use Scrivner. It’s very affordable and, although it’s meant for bigger projects, it has many useful features for organizing your work. Just the 30 (counted) day trial was enough to sell me. Use it for a week, put it down for two weeks, and when you pick it back up again you still have three weeks on the trial. Comes with a very useful and intuitive tutorial. Give it a try!

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview

 

[gunhilltrain]

The individual author may not have consequences but there can be collateral damage as many of us live in a puritanical society and ostracization can drift/infect those who were close to us "b/c surely they knew."

Non-sensical but much of how we treat each other these days is.

Technically that is true, but probably my sister would be the one going through it (she lives in New Jersey) - maybe - and though she might be a bit surprised, she wouldn't the kind to "infect" those close to me. That leaves only my daughter, my son, and my ex-wife (everyone else is gone) and even if my sister told them, they might also be a bit surprised but they wouldn't care that much. That's about where the trail would end. It's possible that my sister would even bother to do much, and she'd just erase the hard drive before selling or giving away the machine.

That's both an advantage and disadvantage of getting older; there are just fewer people around who give a damn about whatever you did. Also, generally New York and New Jersey are not "puritanical," although there are exceptions to everything.

 

[Euphony]

Technically that is true, but probably my sister would be the one going through it (she lives in New Jersey) - maybe - and though she might be a bit surprised, she wouldn't the kind to "infect" those close to me. That leaves only my daughter, my son, and my ex-wife (everyone else is gone) and even if my sister told them, they might also be a bit surprised but they wouldn't care that much. That's about where the trail would end. It's possible that my sister would even bother to do much, and she'd just erase the hard drive before selling or giving away the machine.

That's both an advantage and disadvantage of getting older; there are just fewer people around who give a damn about whatever you did. Also, generally New York and New Jersey are not "puritanical," although there are exceptions to everything.

I think more in the macro than the micro and, across probabilities, I can see someone using the exposure incest writing has without harboring any legitimate feelings of the sort (or choose another fetish if it suits.)

The "guilty" has no consequences but it can make for some difficult remembrances for those left behind.

Even here there is a stunning % of people seemingly incapable of separating fantasy writing/thought & or themes exploration from true wanting of activity.

No time in human history have so many slipped into persona(s) so easily yet we are as judgmental and sure of others (motives, intentions, true natures, etc.) as ever.

Fantasy understanding and research is plentiful, accessible, and illuminating.

 

[live4thebj]

A current Mac? What's wrong with Pages? Comes with the computer and if you don't have it already is free on the App Store. It's easy to use and reads and writes MSWord files, in .doc and .docx format. LitE does fine with .doc files. It's my go-to on a MacBook Air when I'm away from home.

Personally I would stay the hell away from Google anything related to my erotica writing. They are experts in connecting the dots. If you're thinking you can hide behind a second Gmail account, think again. They know.

That’s what I ended up using and just finished a story. Going to edit one more time and post it.

 

[Athalia]

Libre Office is free to download and install.

If I have to do anything compatible with Micro$oft, Libre Office is what I use on my MacBook Air. The only glitch I can see is that, being UK based, it prefers British to American spelling, although it's possible to jigger the preferences to select the latter.

But almost all the erotica I write is done with TextEdit, which comes free on the Mac. It closely resembles the Notepad app on Windows machines.

 

[Duleigh]

If you like word, Microsoft Office Online is free to use.

 

[gunhilltrain]

If you like word, Microsoft Office Online is free to use.

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. (Right now, I have a very old Dell computer with a very old version of MS Office on it.)

P.S.: It's MS Office 2013.

 

[Duleigh]

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to do that. (Right now, I have a very old Dell computer with a very old version of MS Office on it.)

P.S.: It's MS Office 2013.

I have Office 6 on disk, I kept it because that's what I supported on Macintosh Clones in a previous century.