It’s just you and your thoughts and your words, or the words that come through you from somewhere outside of you.
There is a purity to the act of writing using the simplest of tools, having all of the options that constrain the writing removed or eliminated. There is something about the minimalist tool that is a text editor that allows the words to come more easily. You bang on the keys, words appear, you love some of them, you hate others, you hit the delete key to remove what doesn’t work, retype the very same idea using different words, recognize that the new words still don’t capture the idea, and you back up and start over again. Writing in a text editor is more like writing using a typewriter. It serves a single task: it is a place for you to create using words. What’s in my email inbox? What’s on the social channels? With a text editor, you have a blank page and a blinking cursor-and nothing else. Everything else is superfluous.Ī text editor is different from a browser-based writing application, be it Google Docs or Microsoft Word 365. When you are writing, the only things that matter are words, sentences, paragraphs, pages, and ideas. There isn’t any reason to use formatting. Even though there is markdown available to bold or underline or create headers, I never use any formatting while I am writing. I write in a text editor because there are no distractions. All of the blog posts here over the last three or four years were written in plain text. To work with editors, I had to export the chapters into Microsoft Word, because that is the tool that editors use.Īlmost everything I write, outside of some very basic emails messages, is written in this plain text editor. I wrote my second book, The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the 10 Commitments That Drive Sales using that very same app. I wrote my first book, The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need, using a text editor called Ulysses.
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