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As promised last night, I started writing a story today.  So far it’s going well (617 words at time of post), but it’s already mutated away from the original concept some and I really don’t know how long it will end up being.

Although in the past I spent some time trying to find good writing tools, when the time came to start writing I ended up using Google Docs – allow me to explain why:

• It’s available everywhere (the joys of cloud computing) though it also has offline access
• It can export as several useful file types including HTML, which is what I’ll use when the story is finished and I want to publish it on my website.  I could easily publish it directly from Google Docs, but I want the Google Juice for my site.
• Revision tracking
• Built-in dictionary/thesaurus/encyclopedia/web lookup for words

What Google Docs is missing as a writing tool is a database to store characters, locations, plot points etc.

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