Writers of the Cloud, Come Forth!
CLOUD is today's word of the interwebs.
First, we've got cloud hosting for commercial-based websites and websites representing businesses. Next, we've got cloud storage and cloud players, such as the Amazon Cloud Player, where you can upload your most treasured files from your hard drive to the cloud, where you can access them anywhere and re-download them when your computer crashes. We now also have cloud note-taking services, such as the popular Evernote, where you can store all your most important notes as well as access them anywhere when you don't have your laptop or access directly to your hard drive.
Today, for all the avid writers from all around the world from fiction writers, non-ficiton writers, to contemporary blogging, technology has served us once again, taking advantage of the internet as a means of discovering inspirations as well as getting discovered by publishers and online magazines all around.
We've got the awesome Technorati, which gives bloggers all around a chance to write and contribute their articles for the world's largest blogging search engine.
We also got the yearly NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) that gives creative writers (and in some cases, bloggers) the chance to write and overcome the challenge of writing a 50,000 word count novel with no restrictions or boundaries. And of course, there are various writing communities all around from Fanfiction.net, FictionPress.net, to newer communities such as Wattpad, Scribophile and Protagonize, that are giving various options for writers to expand and improve their craft to a wider audience.
On top of that, we have Amazon's Createspace and Barnes & Noble's PubIt!, where writers have a chance to sell their creative writing through various tools, mainly publishing eBook versions of your writing.
The disadvantage though with the services I mentioned above was that you are required to save all your work in your hard drive, as those services are all database-powered. Events such as NaNoWriMo do not even save your 50,000+ word count novel in their servers as you only require to copy and paste your work to their word counter to be sure that you have reached your goal before the end of the month. Others have the vulnerability of having several technical problems from server crashes to even getting hacked. Not just that, you as a writer would also gaining technical problems from having your hard drive fried to even occasional screen freezes. And when that happens, you lose all your hard work, especially if you're one of those users who do not frequently save your work from time to time.
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