Most people go with something like Abiword. Perhaps, something larger for their document editing.
I do my writing in a terminal.
This is Word Grinder.
http://wordgrinder.sourceforge.net/
It's out of date. Which is sad. But for an older system, there's nothing better.
Especially exiting into a tty for a truly full screen writing experience.
It's written in Lua.
I want to compile a .pet of this. But I don't know if someone's already beat me to it.
Anyone interested in this fine cli program?
Word Grinder.
You can find it here; http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy.html#office