Pioneer Woman at Heart

  Pushing myself to be more responsible with my time, I had read about Five Minute Friday, from another blog (My Shasta Home), and felt drawn to participate.  Not my usual post, and in the future, I may be creating a different platform for my writing (short story, novel writing etc.)   I am late in publishing the five minutes to write (with a one word prompt), but you are getting the post now.  Lucky you. First things first, I started to spend way too much time on the internet with social media scrolling.  Not posting, but scrolling.  You know how so much there can influence us right?  The latest and greatest way to organize, new books to read, herbal tea recipes and such?  Don't get me started on recipes.  I am a recipe hoarder, and have really cut that back.  However, I still woke up groggy and the scrolling was with my morning coffee.   I bought myself a devotional while out on a weekend getaway.  It's title is "D...

  Any writers here?  Are there any free downloadable programs that are similar to what Word offers?  Other than Google docs and notepad?  Looking for one like Word, in which to use for writing, with options to save to a removeable drive as well as save to the computer.  Font options, italics, underscore, paragraph widths and all the options that Word has. Or an inexpensive program to purchase similar to Word? Our Word program expired a few years ago, and I do not like notepad at all.  It comes in handy for a recipe, but that's about it. Thanks to anyone who can give me recommendations.  I think I follow a few that write books, and possibly a few that keep journals (not blogs, but actual personal journals) using their computer/laptap or tablet.   This tip may be a repeat tip.  Sorry if that is the case.  I started buying 2# bottles of Dawn on sale, and use them to refill our smaller bottle.  Saves us a lot of money, as we can, p...