I'd like to write a novel and was wondering if there are any good web apps or software for doing it? I'd rather not use Word or something similar, because it annoys me all the time. Maybe some service offers this, something similar to Posterous or Tumblr but really for writing long pieces of text with chapters (i.e. a book)?<p>Thanks!
You could certainly use LiberWriter for this, and as an added bonus, it'd be ready to publish to Amazon's KDP.<p><a href="http://www.liberwriter.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.liberwriter.com</a>
You do realize that there are desktop word processors other than Word...?<p>WordPerfect is equally powerful, but uses a completely different paradigm that most users find far more intuitive (and correspondingly less annoying).<p>And there's WordStar for DOS, still highly regarded, and considered by some to be the best word processor ever...
Not a web app (but you wrote ..."or software"), but this is one of the main features of Scrivener <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php</a>.<p>Myself, I would use LaTeX and my favourite editor, but that may have a too-steep of a learning curve for you.