Back to work

[julesjones]

Finished the bookkeeping, and got back to writing this evening. Only 400 words, but it's a start on the new novella. I'm not quite awake enough to be doing revision on the novel, so that can wait another day or two.

Must prod predatrix tomorrow. The new Google Documents facility looks as if it might be a suitable replacement for Netmeeting when it comes to being able to work on a document together. It's been very frustrating trying to work in a chat client.

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[erastes.livejournal.com]

I can't praise Googledocs enough - it's such a boon to me, as I write in at least three or four different places and I never have to copy to disc or to email myself any more. I was constantly leaving work at work or at my mother's and not having the up to date version to work on.

Just WONDERFUL.

[julesjones]

I don't have any need for it along those lines (although until three years ago I would have found it very useful on occasion), so I wasn't really paying attention when there was mention of Writely in rasfc. Someone briefly mentioned collaboration, but made it sound as if it was the usual thing where you edit it, and then the other author can open the file when you've finished it and see the edits marked up. It was only when someone mentioned yesterday that both authors can work on a document at the same time, with the edits showing up on both computers, that I went to have a look at it. *That* would be very useful to us, given our collaboration method involves writing together in real time. We used to do it by using Netmeeting to share our desktops, but can't do that any more for reasons involving firewalls, netlag, and someone converting to the Church of Apple.