Glum

[flemmings]

Reading The Dragon Waiting. It's the kind of book that could stop a person writing entirely.

Mind, so could the sudden frequent inexplicable Word97 crashes. Open Office, here I come, I guess. (No, online advice person, Wordpad is *not* good enough. It won't let me open two documents simultaneously and it wants to save everything as rtf.)

Comments

[incandescens]

There are some authors where you think "I want to write that well!" and others where you wonder, "could I ever write that well?"

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Argh, I hate Wordpad!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

One of the more useless MS inventions, yes. The worst features of Notepad and Word combined.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

And some where you know "I'll never write that well."

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Ahh it sounds like the next book I ought to read yes?

What is this 'Wordpad' you speak of I have only vague notions of it! Obviously I'm not techy enough ... or something.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The basic word processing program that comes with all Windows OSs. You can write a document in it and add some formatting like bold and italic (which you can't in notepad-- that's basic basic basic wp, good for writing shopping lists and short html documents.) If it let you open several docs at once and if it wasn't so insistent on rich text (though I can see why it is) it'd be fine. But it doesn't and it is and it's not.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

I can just about cope with Word. Hubby uses notepad all the time. Yeah and I hate rtf! and thankfully the children keep me supplied with recycled paper to write 'to do' and shopping lists on.