10 February 2011 @ 08:56 pm
Google Docs = crack for my Muse?  

Story time!

Once upon a time, there was a blonde chick who was at home with her little ones during Christmas Break.  She wanted to write something (because the little ones were busy when their Pokemon!obsession), but her daughters had taken over her laptop (read previous statement about their Pokemon!obsession.  One was watching an episode on TV, the other was playing a game on the Pokemon site.)  Not wanting to upset them (and hear screaming/whining/complaining), she decided to go to Dino to write.

The only problem?

No word processing program. Other than WordPad, which is made of fail.

Er, no.

So, remembering the awesome spreadsheet that her incredible mod made for the [livejournal.com profile] scifibigbang , she decided to go to Google Docs to write something, anything, because if she heard anymore "I choose you, Pikachu!" she was going to go insane. Besides, it was great! She could type from computer to computer without having to email .rtf files (or something else as equally as lame).

(Yes, she did do a happy dance at this thought.)

So, she made it a habit, during Pokemon time, she would escape go to the spare computer and type.  Then, after the oldest daughter went back to school, she found that she enjoyed Google Docs so much, she started using it on her beloved old laptop, Lappy.  (Which was a Good thing, because when it died suddenly, she still had her story.) Even when she got her new computer, she Still used Google Docs because it was easier for her to write.

Six weeks later? She has written nearly 30k words.

No Big Bangs. No gift challenges. (Remember, that she wrote 90k last year and nearly half that word count came from Big Bang Stories.) Which leaves one unquestionable conclusion...Google Docs is her enabler.

The End.

(And no, I have no idea why I wrote that in third person. Except for maybe the fact that I'VE WRITTEN TOO MUCH FIC SINCE THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.)
 


 
 
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[identity profile] manniness.livejournal.com on February 11th, 2011 12:57 pm (UTC)
Dude! Congrats on the word-age!! *hugs*

Like, y'know. Awesome. Seriously. (^__~)

And I thought I'd share this because I'm evil my husband just happened to find it moments before I read your post:

http://livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/laba_q/imgs/5/f/5f85126a.jpg

DON'T LET YOUR GIRLS SEE THIS OR YOU WILL REGRET IT. SRSLY.
yappichick: Text: Plot bunny capacity[personal profile] yappichick on February 11th, 2011 04:18 pm (UTC)
Thanks! *hugs* I swear, I don't know what's wrong with me. Curse those fertile plot bunnies, LOL.

Wow. Your husband must have epic timing. Though I'm thinking that you might be a little evil. LOL

Dude, if my girls see that I would fear for our cat's life. Keira would probably color it with a highlighter while she had Autumn hold him down. LOL (Though, that is too funny. I could only imagine what that cat is thinking. ROFL)
[identity profile] cherith.livejournal.com on February 11th, 2011 05:30 pm (UTC)
I <3 GDocs so much. I use it for EVERYTHING.
yappichick: Woot: Love Monster[personal profile] yappichick on February 11th, 2011 06:25 pm (UTC)
It's great. The only thing I don't like is the auto-save feature (more specifically the "save every two seconds" aspect). I have a terrible tendency to cut out huge sections if I'm unsure if I want to use them, so I lost a couple of chunky sections that way. (Now, if I want to do a mass edit, I just open another new doc and cut and paste it.)

But, overall, Google Docs FTW! :D
[identity profile] cherith.livejournal.com on February 11th, 2011 06:58 pm (UTC)
Yeah, because of the auto-save, my docs tend to look like crap because I just leave everything in, with notes and comments all over the place so I know what's going on.
[identity profile] padme18.livejournal.com on February 11th, 2011 07:09 pm (UTC)
LOL!
yappichick: TNG: Laugh[personal profile] yappichick on February 11th, 2011 07:18 pm (UTC)
I swear, I was in a punchy mood last night...LOL
[identity profile] padme18.livejournal.com on February 12th, 2011 05:32 pm (UTC)
Nothing wrong with that.