![]() You can reply to each comment, allowing for easy discussion with your fellow editors and, once you’re happy the issue has been resolved, you just click the button labelled ‘resolve’ to hide the comment. Comments appear in small boxes to the side of your work which are anchored to particular portions of the document. This is handy if you’re writing collaboratively or are looking for someone to give feedback on your work. Perhaps its most obvious selling point is the fact you can share your work with other users who can edit your work or add comments. You can also make your work available offline. Another major selling point was the fact it automatically saved your work to Google Drive and instantly made it available to you anywhere in the world. It took absolutely no time to learn how to use, since everything is very familiar to anyone who has ever used a bog-standard word processor before. At first glance, Google Docs really is just another word processor. So far, my thoughts on the subject had been proven absolutely right. ![]() Unwilling to be deterred, however (I mean, really, you don’t particularly need a fancy template for writing short works of fiction), I decided to start with a blank template. There are loads to choose from and not one of them has anything to do with fiction writing. The first thing to do is choose a template for your document. Seeing no alternative to this plan, I swallowed my pride and began writing my first draft on Google Docs, starting with the browser version. My plan was to use a set portion of my normal writing time to work on the Christmas story using Google Docs on my PC, while using the Google Docs Android app on my phone to continue writing whenever I had a spare five minutes in my day (when I’m on the bus, during lunch breaks, etc). Google Docs stores your work online so you can continue writing on the go! Most days I’m lucky to get half an hour to write, and I can’t possibly devote it all to the Penstricken Christmas Special. I have a full time job, a toddler and (lest we forget) a novel I’m supposed to be writing. That meant I had only a few weeks to write, edit and publish a 1,000 word Christmas story and – to be perfectly frank – I don’t have a lot of time on my hands for starting a brand new story from scratch. ![]() And here on Penstricken, Christmas can only ever mean one thing: the Penstricken Christmas Special. Besides, in spite of all the good things I’d heard about Google Docs, it sounded a bit too much like a plain old fashioned word processor, without any peculiar functionality that might make it stand out to a fiction writer such as myself. Lots of people swear by it and I had no reason to doubt the good reports I was hearing, however I’m already pretty well established in the apps I like to use (Scrivener for long works like novels and Focus Writer for shorter pieces). It’s not that I think there’s anything wrong with Google Docs. I’ve resisted using Google Docs for writing fiction for a long time.
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