Of course it works better when connected to the internet, but Google Drive works offline too it just continues as normal until you get back online, and then it re-syncs with the cloud. It's ideal for writing and editing on the go. My Chromebook is small and lightweight with around 8 hours of battery life and a super-fast 'wake up' like a tablet. Google's Chrome browser is of course already installed, as is Google Docs, which is like a cut-down online version of Word, completely free. Last year I bought myself a Chromebook, which is an inexpensive laptop with a Google OS (not Windows) that is centered around apps from the Google app store. I then adjusted and produced a Kindle version, and I typically read that 'fast' to see if anything else jumped out. Then I would transfer the novel to Google Docs so that my author buddy Brian Clopper could do a first-sweep beta-read and leave comments throughout. Something else that helped enormously is what I wrote it on. Either way, two months total for one complete novel? That's a record, and I know I can do it again. I'm not sure if it's because I enjoyed it so much or because I disciplined myself into writing a bit every morning and night and getting 2000 words a day completed. This is a huge achievement for me, yet it didn't seem to be as much effort as previous books have been. It's worth mentioning that I started AND finished the first draft of Unicorn Hunters in January 2016, and here we are midway through March and it's just about to publish. So this post is for those who write or are in any way interested in my methods. Now that I've finished Unicorn Hunters and worked through comments and corrections, I'm reminded again how useful Google Docs is.

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