I write in Text Editor on Ubuntu (basically notepad for linux) and do a weird mix of hand-coding HTML or using random emphasis indicators as I go (e.g. *wibble* for wibble) - I think I almost never use bold in my stories, but I I do use italics quite a bit, but whether I type it "properly" in HTML or just add something for emphasis depends on how the *flow* is going :-)
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