For those who are looking for handy-dandy word processors, I bring you... my collection. Yes, I collect word processors. I like to change things up a little bit.

OpenOffice is just like Microsoft Word, except free. It's got nice features, as well, like being able to change the background colours, and put your screen onto "full screen" so that you see nothing but what you type. Recommended by me, and fanfiction.net.

I also recommend GoogleDocs. It's good for not only backing up your files on the Internet, but for writing, as well. that way, you can write your story on any computer. I'm not thrilled with the size limits and how annoying it can be to format, but it does the trick. And with GoogleGears, you are able to edit offline, and then have it automagically upload it to your account once you connect to the Internet.

Writer is pretty handy, because it's not distracting. But it doesn't have any formatting perks. Think of it as "Write Or Die" without the "Or Die". Except that it's "WriteR" and not just "Write".

Q10 is a programme I'm still new to, but I love it. It's just so simple, and makes typewriter noises (I love to hear the ribbon sound when I press 'enter'!). There isn't any formatting or anything, but you can save the files, and you can always copy and paste them to the document you plan on formatting when you edit. Be sure to NOT install it to your program files, or it won't install. Just install it to your main drive (not my idea - took me a month to get frustrated with it until someone here helped me out).

Then, there's good old Notepad. No distractions, whatsoever - you can't even change the colour of the text. I write on Notepad when all else fails, and copy-and-paste it to my document. I just cannot write in the actual story document - it drives me insane.

Remember, when you're writing, it's about writing. Not editing. When you're writing, use the backspace key only when you must, and don't worry about major formatting (italics, etc.). That will come later.

If you have any more recommendations to add, do so! I have Windows, so I'm not aware with what runs with Linux or other systems!

I feel like my introduction post was poorly written. Why? Because it was probably poorly written.

I am a 17 yr. old writer, who resides in Florida. I have been writing just about as long as I could - when I was six, I got this Barbie journal for about $6, and just never quit writing.

I don't know why I like to write. Maybe it's that thrill you get when you know you've told a story that no one else has before. Maybe it's that 'thing' you've got inside of you that brings you so much joy you just HAVE to share with everyone else. Maybe the simple sounds the typewriter makes makes you happy. For me, it's all of the above, and more.

I write a variety of things. Original YA fiction, and adult fanfiction is what I have a tendency to write most of the time. I count my progress as words - most first drafts end up being at least 150,000 words, which I cut down to about 100,000 by the end of the second or third draft. My goal this year is to write enough first-drafts to make 1,000,000 words - I started on November 1st, to coincide with NaNoWriMo, and am about 40,000 words behind as I write this post, thanks to computer problems. I can catch up in about a week, but it's going to a bumpy ride.

My intentions are to blog about all things writing, with maybe a few other things in between. Tips to keep you writing, motivations, chapter titles, you name it, I'll have it.

Now, to get that 40,000 down...

I have tried to blog before. About my day-to-day going-ons (boring) and such. But I could never get into it. Maybe because no one really cared to read about it. I wanted blogging to serve as a way to procrastinate from my writing, but it never really became that.

And then, I had a thought - what if I blogged about writing?

This, my friends, is just that. My writing progress and ventures, tips and tricks, news and encouragement, all posted here.