Here’s some Q10 for your writing
February 26, 2010 in Resources by Wogan
If you do any amount of writing on a computer, you need to check this program out. It’s called Q10, and is a fully-customizable fullscreen writing program that, while only supporting plain text, makes stories that much more fun to write:
This counts as probably the only download I’d highly recommend when it comes to writing. Enjoy!

Another that you might want to try is Y-Writer http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
Damn good software. Allows you to keep everything under control.
By the way, in spite of the notice on the home page of Q10, that mentions that there is no Mac or Linux version of the software, it works perfectly under Wine on Ubuntu Linux!
@John I’ve tried yWriter. I have version 4 here somewhere. Quite frankly it’s too restrictive for me. I prefer wide open spaces where all you can do is write…
And if you want a Linux equivalent that won’t stuff up your saving/loading, try http://pyroom.org/