First, the school district that I work for is "Going Google". This is pretty exciting stuff.
Second, I wrote a novel. OK, a novella. But it's rapidly growing into a full length novel. Well, it would be rapid, if I didn't have to contend with the technology.
What do I mean by that? The National Novel Writing Month contest specifies 50,000 words in a month. Which I did in Google Docs. Well, the first 46,000 were in Google Docs. Then, all of a sudden, my document was "too big" to be stored there.
Which is odd. Because a few days later, after copying and reformatting the whole thing into OpenOffice, then copy and pasting it back into Google Docs, it's now less than thirty percentof its original size?
That question mark there, which I placed to show my confusion, is because I wrote the thing in Google Docs. Obviously, the markup that Google Docs left me with bloated the hell out of my document. No problem, that's life. But, by now, I've mailed off a PDF of the rough draft to all my friends and family, exeedingly proud (or wasm that hubris?) of my accomplishment, as a shared PDF.
And now I have no way to update that PDF in Google Docs without sending out yet another shared document, this time with a cleaned up format and in document form. Madness.
Ah well, I'm sure my family and friends will understand. The devil is in the details. :)
