Tips for Fic Part 4.1 – Work(shop) that Thang! [with Google Docs]

Sorry, there is simply no way to make this entertaining.

As promised I’m putting this post together to give an extremely limited tutorial on using Google Docs for submitting work to the Fiction Workshop. To be clear, you don’t have to use Google Docs, but I’ll like you better if you do. Kidding! I will like reviewing your work better, though; and you’re likely to get a broader array of feedback from multiple sources.

Usually, I write in Word then copy/paste to Google Docs, but for the purposes of doing this walkthrough and for the purposes of being super-freaking-meta, I’m going to write in the very doc I am screen-capping for the tutorial.

Sorry Christopher Nolan, you had your chance and went with ‘dreams,’ pshaw!

And now, without further ado, Docception…

Step 1: Have a Google Account

This might seem like a no-brainer, but not everybody has one and if you’re here trying to find out how to use the Doc function, well maybe you’re one of them. But if you already have your writing in a Google Doc and just want to know how to share it to us, skip to Step 4.
A. Go to Google.com
B. Sign up
C. No! If you managed to make it onto Steemit, you can certainly figure out how to create and sign in to a damn google account!
D. Alright, if you seriously cannot do it, tag me over at the workshop. For everyone else, on to...