Gdoc extension things. · 1:54pm Jul 11th, 2022
Had a convo recently about google docs, and I'm surprised at the amount of people that don't use grammar/writing extensions. Unless I'm mistaken, it is the primary writing platform used by authors on here. Likely even fanfiction as whole. As per recommendation by a fellow respected author, I am inclined to post the ones I use, although I don't expect this blog to actually be seen.
If you do not know how to use these, simply go to the 'extensions' part in your gdoc, click on the 'get add-ons', and search for these two and any others you might want as there are plenty on there. However, these two should be more than enough. After downloading them, they should show up in extensions, though you may have to refresh the page and/or back out of the document and reload it. It will then be free to use as you please.
Note: These are not meant to be an excuse so you don't have to learn grammar stuff and how to actually write. While these are fantastic for catching errors that gdocs doesn't, at least they have been for me, they are only a crutch to help you until you can do the majority of that stuff yourself. I believe this will be extremely useful to novice writers in particular, though still not as much as a good editor would be.
The first one is a great help, thanks for sharing
Thank you. I will definitely use this.
Yep, currently no AI or artificial neural network can replace human editors. Though I have to admit that GDocs suggesting the word 'flower' instead of 'glower' will never stop to amuse me.
Also, I didn't thoroughly test this, though I find that the UK English GDocs generally performs much better than the US version in catching errors even without the extensions.
Maybe it's cuz I mostly write short stuff but 99% of stuff I write outside of collabs I do directly in the fimfiction editor.
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I would recommend google docs instead, but you do you.
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hmm, interesting. I wonder why that is? (not sarcasm I'm genuinely curious why that is the case.)
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I use Google docs for lots of stuff, including collabs with other authors, but I somehow managed to never erase more than a few hundred words on accident in the story of mine and never in a serious story as opposed to a shitfic.
Example copy paste of what I use Google docs for:
Systems Studies by Bryan Chandler
If you are reading this, it means I think you will find my personal studies of systems if not insightful and informative, then at least interesting:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvdkPwlmFp6FLGE9Mm1J26r897xQQPOSm3tuwFWJ3k0/edit?usp=drivesdk
Intro/summary/background (written 3/7/22):
Around November 2021, (surprisingly, for once NOT while on acid) I realized that systems are the perfect thing for me to study. Because I've long been interested in designs and how things work since I was a kid from roller coasters to K'nex to writing crappy My Little Pony fanfiction to composing and performing a variety of music on a variety of instruments in a variety of genres, and politics and economics, memes, and more. And one of my struggles when consuming large amounts of my ADHD meds has long been many hour, occasionally multi-day Wikipedia binges hopping between hundreds of articles.
And then one day, for the first time I just suddenly realized that these are all systems and that I could study ALL of these things, looking for commonalities and how they worked and what principles they followed, and how the fractal nature of the universe means that if you understand how one system works, you can apply those principles to other systems, and how perfect this is for me because I've always considered my creativity and ability to find parallels between disparate phenomena a strength, and long have recognized since middle school that I'm vastly better at understanding concepts than memorizing things, and in recent years recognized that I'm great at connecting people because friendship is magic and networking is just applied friendship.
So in recent months, armed with usually-legally-prescribed stimulants and a thirst for understanding, I've really dived in, and it's pretty overwhelming, because I'm literally trying to understand *Everything*. But it's raining rewards. The first system I chose to intensely study was myself, because I'm a very dysfunctional system. And while I continue to be very dysfunctional, I understand that this functionality a lot better and it has helped me be more cognizant of why I do things the way I do, and More in awe of how incredible and incomprehensible life, the universe, and existence are. And also why it's impossible for me to get addicted to drugs. From neurochemistry to statistics I have a lot of work to do, but literally everything in life is a system, and armed with knowledge of how it all works, I know I can help make this world a better place.
Anyway, here's over 8, 000 rambling thoughts about that organized by date. Still need to scan a few of the old school pencil and paper brainstorming sessions I did. Especially the one where I made this crazy flow chart between the brain the body the mind actions and the external environment, and how they all interact, which led to me for the first time understanding on a deeper level the concept of consciousness being an emergent property of quadrillions of chemical reactions between trillions of molecules in billions of cells in millions of unimaginably complex feedback networks every single second, and that like gender, my identity is a construct and that I, Bryan, do not actually exist. Or as I put it humorously upon this original enlightenment, "I'm literally just a shit posting differential equation."
That was a bit shocking of a paradigm shift, for sure.
Anyway, here's all the typed out stuff. I've been understanding and realizing how important connections are and how good I am at connecting people and how every single system is made up of the two component elements of stuff and the way that stuff is connected.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvdkPwlmFp6FLGE9Mm1J26r897xQQPOSm3tuwFWJ3k0/edit?usp=drivesdk
Please feel free but not obligated to leave comments on the doc, and happy reading!
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Hi, I'm Bryan: pianist, singer, actor, driver, writer, meme lord, networker, systems theorist, and friend! Quickly reach me texting (714) 496-3119 . Less urgent matters: bchandleremail@gmail.com . Spread love, laughter, and kindness, and have a blessed day!