Google Drive or Microsoft Word?

[likhoradka]

I use Google Docs since it lets me work anywhere and jump between Chromebook, PC, and phone without issue. (Now if only it could guess what I mean to type when working on my phone...)

[a.g.meade]

I use Scrivener for all of my scripts and fiction works. It's seriously the best for organizing and preparing works for publication, including .epub and .mobi formats.

[KJBatson]

I use to use just drives but after such a hard time with laptops i moved over to google docs. It has changed everything

[Yulek]

I do everything on google docs

I like how I can access it on my phone and pc and anywhere really.

also for school stuff I use google slides to make my PDFs. it's tools are really helpful to align stuff and general layout bs

[Kaydreamer]

I just use notes on my iPhone/iPad/Mac for when ideas and dialogue pop into my head. I need to get them out and down as quickly as possible, so I don't forget them. Once they're written, I can ruminate on them for a few weeks, and make edits as I do so.

My 'main' writing program however, which I use less often but is where the 'serious business' writing happens, is Scrivner. I absolutely love that program! I write in snippets, all out of order, all over the place, involving whichever character is occupying my thoughts at the time. Scrivner helps me take those snippets from Notes, apply them to folders for the characters involved, and add extra tags for searching.

It also has a fantastic comic script template, which speeds up dialogue formatting enormously!

[skyfarron]

I'll second that, LibreOffice is what I use too.

[mrtoontastic]

It depends on what i'm writing. I usually write on Google Drive/Docs because its accessible, but I lose the chance on using the font I created for myself like in Word. If I could at least transfer my self-created font from Word to Google, that'd be a blast.

[rajillustration]

Google Docs is INSANELY slow for me. So I stick with Libre Office.

[kmlangleyauthor]

I used to use something else (Open Office, maybe?) but it kept freezing and crashing, so I finally switched to Google Docs and it’s been a good switch for me. Even though it’s been years since I used it, there are still a few features I miss from Microsoft Word after using it for so long

[carafox2121]

I've been writing with Microsoft Word forever. Plus, I use it for work. So, it is definitely my comfort zone. I like Google Drive, and I used it a lot for college, but for some reason, I just didn't care for it when I was writing my stories. I always just ended up converting it to Word and continuing through there.

[MohammadCamp]

I mostly use Google because I need to share most of my documents and it's easier

[MelancholicOtaku]

I mostly use drive since it’s easier

[Tubacabra]

Somebody used a fossil reanimator! 🤯

[ThunderChicken]

MS Word with MS Onedrive. I got it (Office365) free for a year with a computer I'd bought and became so used to it that I continue the subscription.

[samconnely]

I don't like Google. I find it very slow and I always lose my temper with it. Microsoft is much smoother and I've been working with it for years. My uni license expired, so I got myself a lifetime Office license here.

[KevinReijnders]

There was a time I used Google docs, but I didn't really like using it. So I actually bought a microsoft office license back in (I think) 2017 and have been using it ever since.

They've been trying to get me to "upgrade" to their shitty 365 subscription service, but why would I when I have a perpetual licence.

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[KevinReijnders]

Why juggle Google Drive, MS Word, and 50 other apps when you can just go straight to the source, right??

Because I prefer to store everything locally instead of using cloud services

None of my projects are backed-up on any form of cloud storage service. I have it all on multiple physical drives, be that a different PC or an external drive. I've literally become too skeptical of the tech industry to have my work and its source files on there haha.

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[KevinReijnders]

You laugh, but I will still take most of my notes with pencil and paper. Sure, not quite hammer and chisel - but still - good old analog tech haha.