@wion @aral
You're welcome.
BTW, I understand how you feel concerning writing as a personal endeavor because I've written a few novels and short stories. I started out with a plain text editor because at the time it was all I had (on a 486 running DOS).
In my experience (naturally, your mileage may vary) there's a certain Zen in just firing up an editor you know reasonably well and bashing out text without even worrying about formatting or markup.