Where do you do your writing?

I all my blog posting in-browser. I do this despite the fact that I routinely lose half-completed posts to the nether of the internet, and I’m not really sure I understand why.

The biggest reason I keep writing online is that I really believe that the web is the next platform for basically everything. I remember when I actually had a use for a computer sans-internet, but nowadays, if the internet goes out, my computer is useless. I sit around like a chimp with a plastic banana.

I think there are two other reasons I do all my blog-writing on the web. One of them is that I can’t really find a client that I like enough. I like writing in a little box with all my options available to me, and that’s not going to happen unless a client is fully integrated with the blog software, and I’m not going to find one that works like that with WP, Movable Type, and other, less-bloggy site software all on the same level.

I also just really like the WP back-end. I don’t use the “visual rich” editor because I like the basic setup. It suits my writing style.

The third reason is that I use drafts ALL THE TIME. I routinely fish three-month old brainstorms from the bin and polish them off (OK, quick side note, in the past ten minutes the view outside my windows has gone from an evening blue to an evening apocalyptic red. Am I about to blow up?). Unless I can find a client that fully integrates with my drafts and lets me edit and save drafts to the online system that I can get at from multiple machines, it does me no good.

But I think I’m in the minority. I don’t know what Teresa uses, but I know she uses some sort of client. I know a bunch of people like Performancing. And I know a bunch of people have this cool “integration” with their feed readers, but I like Google Reader and besides, (OK now the skyline is blue again. This is like some colossally bizarre world-rave party). And besides, I’ve already established linking, posting, and tabbed-browsing habits that work fine for me.