Anybody writing in WordPad?

I always use this whern I'm writing the first draft of anything. There are no attention-grabbing wiggly lines under words to lure my Inner Editor out from its cave, but it's still got enough formatting that I can use italics and that normally.

Anyone else? Or am I alone? xxx

WordPad doesn't have a word count option, so ....No. Definitely Not using Wordpad.

I use WordPad, mostly because it clears out distractions like spell-checks and grammar checks; they usually break my train of thought. I just use an online word counter to get the rough estimate.

Oh, yeah; I'm using WordPad! It's simple, straightforward, uncluttered, and .rtf can be read by any word processor. Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Crooked Little Vein) swears by it. The lack of a word count thingie is a problem, but I can always cut and paste into OpenOffice or something and get a word count there.

Yeah, I just c&p into MS Word when I think I might have enough. :)

You can kill the spell check and grammar check options in Word. Kill them dead and never see them again!

bwahahahahah *ahem*

In mine (Word 2003) it's Tools --> Options --> Spelling and Grammar --> uncheck "check spelling as you type" and "check grammar as you type"

First thing I do when I'm working on a new computer (though this one, actually, is almost 6 years old) or a new writing word processing program is send the spelling/grammar check far far away and never bring them back.

When I'm on a windows machine, I usually compose in a program called Roughdraft, which I like to think of as: "Wordpad + word counts + page previews" :)

It's much simpler than turning off all of Word that I don't really want to worry about when I'm doing a first draft!

I use Wordpad because I don't have Word :S

Haha Word is all I currently have on my computer...so yepp I'm using it x)

I love WordPad. Last year's NaNo was made from it and Roughdraft, but when I upgraded to Windows 7 I was horrified by two things. First, Roughdraft began glitching on me. Second, they changed WordPad's view - it now looks like print preview, which was utterly distracting for me. If anyone could tell me how to revert the view back to its pre-Windows 7 self I would be very happy. :|

WordPad is the only writing program on my desktop that is currently NOT having serious issues, but for NaNo I'm switching to my laptop, so I'll probably use MS Word.

I usually write in WordPad for the minimalist interface and (I thought) versatile file format, but I may be using my Android tablet for some of my NaNo-ing, and bizarrely, Android does not play nice with rtf. It's pretty much txt, doc, or gtfo. I'll probably be doing docs in LibreOffice on Windows, and Documents to Go on Android.

I wrote in WordPad last year, but this year I bought myself Liquid Story Binder. If it proves too distracting (I've spent days just playing with color themes), I'll likely switch back to WordPad.

Anyone who likes WordPad but wants additional features like word counts (which someone above said is not included in WordPad) try the free program Jarte. It is basically an improved WordPad that was developed to add in a lot of the features Wordpad is missing.

Woohoo! I'm back to WordPad thanks to today's free app on the Amazon Android market! For a few more hours, you can get Office Suite Pro for free (usually $14.99), and in addition to MS Office formats, it handles rtf just fine =D

I'm using WordPad! Sometimes it's lack of features bugs me, but it is alot less distracting. I downloaded a word counter from Yahoo!Widgets that I am using. You copy the text you want counted and push the "Paste" button the counter and it tells you the words and characters. Not as advanced, but functional and less distracting.

I write everything using WordPad, mainly because I hate the spaces between pages (I have OpenOffice on my desktop, and I don't think you can minimalize it like you can in Word), and because I hate it when Word points out mistakes that aren't mistakes. I still paste the piece into an OpenOffice document to keep track of my counts, but I have to write in WordPad.

I'm happy to see I'm not alone in this too^__^

WordPad! *waves*

I have always used WordPad to do all of my creative writing, including all five of my Nanos. If WP had a built-in wordcounter then I would need nothing else.

The main thing I like about it is the zero startup time. Every heavyweight word processor out there involves some serious CPU power when it's starting up (sometimes accompanied by a splash screen or welcome dialog box), but WordPad is just "BAM!" ready to go when you click the shortcut.

We should really poll this.

I use word pad if I am at my PC or notepad if I am using my iPhone. Lol

Yeah, I use WordPad, as much as I crave a word count, LOL.