Week 1-How to start.

    Lets start with the basics of how ITN can help with my writing and in turn the basics of getting started with a piece. As you well know, no one write without a base to start from, you need pencil and paper in order to get anything down. The same could be said here, in order to start typing we need a word processor. Now, for me, I use two particular ones: Word, and Google docs. Lets look at both of them and see how well they work.

    Word is the most common of the group and most likely the first one that you have heard about when you started using a computer. In word, you have many options for formatting your text, changing the allignment, and to insert hyperlinks to a particular website that you might want. This was also my personal one that I got started with and though it is a classic, I can still say that it does have some small problems. Due to the fact that it recuires you save manually, there is a chance that you might forget to save when you close the program and thus lose all of your work. Too many bad memories with that, trust me. Another problem is that you would have to pay for it through office and this can be troubling if you just wanted a word processor without the excess material. It would also be troubling for the person who wants to get a computer on the cheap.

The second one that I use, and use more often lately is google docs through the use of drive. In order to best describe what it is and to better illustrate my points, here is a small video



Now, I have fallen in love with this service. It has all of the features of word and none of the expenses. I greatly enjoy the cheapness of the product, how it handles my typing speed, and so much more. I also love how the doc allows for others to join you in the writing of your material, allowing for people to help with editing or making collaberations that much easier.It also gives the writer a chance to make just as easy edits with an easy spell-check. The spell check also gives you the corrections for words, but also won't try to correct the words that are common in fandoms-such as Saiyan or other terms. If I had any real complaint with it is this, since you are working online with this you need an internet connection. To make it worse, if you lose the connection at anytime, you'll lose the ability to work on the product. Fortunatly, and this is another reason why I am a fan, is that docs has this tendancy to autosave everything for every edit. This means that whenever you type, you'll not have to worry about losing valuable work