Jim Logan admitted that, “for every single post I write, including this one, I write it first in MS Word and save a copy in a common folder on my computer.”
I have a similar habit but for different reasons, as I commented on ProBlogger.
“You are weird. That said, I oftentimes do something similar using TextPad (that you use Word is what I find weird). Why? Well, because I am used to the world of the message board, the online community, and so forth. In the old days the latency might have been bad enough that the entire post that I crafted might be gone when I hit submit and the latency timed-out the post. Happened all the time on the Well and TMN when Web Interfaced replace Text Caucus v2 (the good old days with Superscoop, etc).”
“At the very least, I hit cmd-a, cmd-c, before I click Add Comment or Post — just to make sure it is at least in my clipboard first.”
“I leave a “scratchpad” open all day… the biggest reasons are to do some quick regex grepping or some reformatting (to get rid of the ugly MS Word metadata) or to reformat a bit of text to get rid of hard returns.”
“I highly recommend TextPad but Ultra32 is great as well.”
