Google Docs for Writers
For some months I have been using google docs to write.
This might seem like somewhat of a no-brainer, after all it is a word processor so what else would it be used for exactly?
Well, creative writers can be a sketchy lot, part fancy, part reality, part party. For the most part we’re not very good with change, even though that’s what we write about, and we don’t like trusting out precious to some unknown other that’s sitting somewhere out there in The Cloud.
The Cloud? Seriously it just doesn’t build confidence.
I mean what it the internet should break? Then where would we be. Sitting at home weeping, cursing the day we ever decided to trust something as ephemeral as The Cloud. One doesn’t want to get caught with their pants down.
And yet. Here I am. Some months on. My work is still there. Shock!
I can access it on any computer with an internet connection – without fancy software.
I can access it on my mobile phone.
I can even access it at my parents place. And as we all know parents places seem like they’ve been transported forward in time from the 1950s.
So what – is it the greatest writing decision I’ve ever made? Well it is then my writing is going to be pretty crappy.
But for now, I’m happy enough.
Now to stop procrastinating.
