What program do you use to write? The only one I've got is open office, but it doesn't mark run-ons or fragments, which are my greatest weakness, lol... Any one know a good one to help with grammar?
Only ever used MS Word, here, but at the same time you don't want to conform to their corrections one hundred percent. My own documents are green every other line (sentence fragments) just because the program is more built for proper, academic writing and can't recognize affected speech or character voice.
The only way to really see if it's correct is to consult a grammar handbook, or just read your work out loud. If it sounds natural vocally, you've essentially solved run-ons.
It's got a grammar and spell check, but the grammar check is wrong 90% of the time. However it can be useful for finding overly convoluted sentences...that are still generally grammatically correct. The spell check is usuallly reliable, though.
Using the cheap default stuff that came with my computer. Good old Word Works/Word Processing. The best. Just like what I did when I was in middle school from 1993 to 1994
yeah some good old fashioned notebook paper such as a 3 subject notebook comes in handy with pencils. Heck I still have a fresh brand new 3 subject notebook I bought like a year or two ago and havent written anything in it yet.
Anyone who brags about writing with pen and paper in the year 2012 is either smoking elephant feces or being paid by the government to spread that Illuminati propaganda. I used to use OOo, but then it crashed and lost me an entire chapter of a story I was writing. Now it just sits there in my program files. Google Docs is my home base for all things writing.
hey now. Don't be dissing good old fashioned pencile and notebook paper. They're more reliable than trying to type up sometin gon the comptuer and then bam. a compuer crash messes your computer up.
I prefer good old 3 subject notebooks and pencils.
That's if your handwriting is legible...I dread transcribing the story I wrote years ago by hand, and am afraid it may be lost forever.
Anyway I'm afraid I need to be able to comfortably get things out at about 100wpm to keep up with my brain vomiting out words, so that's another major notch against handwriting...not to mention the crippling pain. :P
hey now. Don't be dissing good old fashioned pencile and notebook paper. They're more reliable than trying to type up sometin gon the comptuer and then bam. a compuer crash messes your computer up.
Yeah, really. What if your handwriting sucks? lolmojoboy31
my handwriting used to be so bad i struggled to read it sometimes haha,it's still terrible but i like it in a weird sorta way.. haha, handwritten stuff is just... cooler.
Hey, is there anyway to be incognito on google docs? I just started looking into it, but I can't seem to hide my real name from the account... I'm kind of computer illiterate, in case you hadn't already noticed...
I like to use the "Publish to Web" setting so it's just like a plain-text HTML document and as far as I know nothing is shown for the author of the document. It might be your best bet. If you use the basic Google Doc viewer (where people can comment/see others reading), you may run into people seeing your name. I think I just show up as anonymous, myself.
But maybe someone else who's more familiar with the settings can help you out.
Thanks Sharpie... Yeah, I was just looking around, but I can't seem to change my display name, or anything like that. I'll keep digging and see what I can find.
EDIT:... I figured it out, thanks again... Next time I post something it'll be in google docs :)
lol so true! finally found you, and writing in here, hopefully someone commented on my blog and posts. What is the hot topic in here?danika809
I'm always here. This is like my neighborhood on the web. :P I checked out your blog post on religion. I prefer to keep my views to myself, but speaking of which, there's this new series floating around the board called a River of Godsblood--you should check it out.
I prefer to keep my views to myself, but speaking of which, there's this new series floating around the board called a River of Godsblood--you should check it out.iloveflash
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