Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Writely becomes Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

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Have you tried the new Writely yet? It's now an integrated app called Google Docs and Spreadsheets. You can upload any of your own documents, whether Word, Excel or other, and work on them online, as well as sharing them with others. It's ideal to work on material when you're out of the office, using other computers, at the library, for example.

One of the biggest benefits of this online app is its ability to create PDFs with active hyperlinks. I just saved this document as a PDF, and included a link to my Creativity Factory blog - http://www.angelabooth.com/wp/

I selected File, Save As PDF, and the new PDF was created and saved to my computer desktop. When I opened the PDF, the link was active. Great stuff if you need to create PDFs but don't own Adobe Acrobat.

You can also create instant HTML documents, with images - once again, this is ideal if you're not at your own computer.

Give Google Docs & Spreadsheets a try - it may become one of your favorite applications, because it frees you from being tied to a particular computer. I'll be asking my writing students to use the app, because it makes working together so easy.

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