Yup, my wordcount function in GDocs didn't match AO3's (That's what I get for trying to be "clever" once and tell a story set in 1961 in 1,961 words exactly!)
For co-writing, other than the memory limits that GDocs has, the only problem we've had is when it's down. Smaller stories, single scenes and such, we can toss back and forth in email, but we tend to create a file in GDocs when an idea goes from "Wouldn't it be funny if..." to "Are we really writing this?" mostly as a way of consolidating the bits and pieces we'd been discussing in four different email threads and two LJ comment threads and the idea she had in the shower that morning and putting them all in one place.
I was writing to meet a challenge and spent twice as long editing down a story to slide under the maximum word count as I had writing out the original idea.
Finally got it, with an extra word to spare, cut-and-pasted it, and the word count in that program said it was one word over the limit.
I've handwaved word counts ever since. I like my adjectives and I don't like counting to one hundred and I figure to hell with it. Call me a wild and willful woman.
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51stcenturyfox) wrote2010-01-12 10:28 am
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For co-writing, other than the memory limits that GDocs has, the only problem we've had is when it's down. Smaller stories, single scenes and such, we can toss back and forth in email, but we tend to create a file in GDocs when an idea goes from "Wouldn't it be funny if..." to "Are we really writing this?" mostly as a way of consolidating the bits and pieces we'd been discussing in four different email threads and two LJ comment threads and the idea she had in the shower that morning and putting them all in one place.
Same. I kind of hate staring at an empty GDoc!
word count
Finally got it, with an extra word to spare, cut-and-pasted it, and the word count in that program said it was one word over the limit.
I've handwaved word counts ever since. I like my adjectives and I don't like counting to one hundred and I figure to hell with it. Call me a wild and willful woman.