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Writing Fiction Using SubEthaEdit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amusing-stuff dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "The recent blizzard on the East Coast makes for some great collaborative creativity opportunities of various sorts, including group fiction writing using SubEthaEdit. Did you know you can write fiction about collaborative fiction writing using collaborative fiction writing tools? We didn't either." Man, the best fiction I've ever produced is some of the project plans created using SubEtha.

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  1. what about wiki? by dns_server · · Score: 2, Insightful

    isn't wiki designed for this collaberation? unlike sub ertha edit, it is not fixed to an operating system, just a web browser, allowing everyone to participate.

  2. Re:alternatives by Leo+McGarry · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's closed-source, Windows/Linux x86 only, is a terrible editor, the UI is horrible and it's generally a pain to use in comparison to subetha which Just Works, but it's a lot better than nothing.

    That doesn't add up to me. If it doesn't run on a Mac, is a bad program with a bad user interface and is a pain to use ...how is it better than nothing? If the tool gets in the way, aren't you better off ditching the tool?