I'm a long-time user of free/open source software, and write various things for both fun and profit. I don't take myself all that seriously and I do all of my own stunts.
You can find me at these fine establishments on the web: Open Source Musings, The Monday Kickoff, Weekly Musings. and The Plain Text Project.
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Interesting that you mention org-mode. While playing around with it recently, I came across this article about making org-mode look and behave like a word processor.
I've used Ted in the past, and it's a decent minimalist application. Its UI needs a bit of a refresh, though. And I'm not a huge fan of RTF, mainly because it doesn't retain style information.