What I Write With: Software (MS Word, Google, or None of the Above?)

I talked a little last week about my writing gear. I wanted to get a bit more into detail regarding writing software, and some of the choices I've made in the past and present regarding this.

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This is not quite what I started writing stuff on.

When I first got started with serious writing, it was likely in college. I went to the University of Iowa for my undergraduate studies. (Yes, it is the University of Iowa that has the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop that Hannah briefly attended in Girls. No, I sadly never got into the Workshop, which is quite competitive. I eventually decided on more of a journalism track. OK, enough of that before this turns into another Writer's Biography piece.)

Anyway, I was probably the last college student in the USA to not have an email address, or I didn't use it that much. Me and my future wife were exchanging actual letters, not emails and not much on the phone because this was back when long-distance calling was an actual servic…