Last week I was gchatting with my friend A, one of my closest friends, someone I know from college.  We gchat, text, facebook, tweet, all the time.  But last week she asked me to send her some of my writing, because she hadn’t read anything of mine in awhile, because she enjoys it, and because she said she’s been meaning to get back into reading (in general) and my story would be a good starting place.

So I had one in mind.  I have recently discovered that turning a file into pdf is very sleek looking, as opposed to a docx.  So I converted to pdf and emailed it to her with the subject line “my story” and the body writing “pdf for fancy”.  I bring that up because I feel like with most other people I would put something sort of formal, even if it was short like: “Hey, so here’s my story that you asked for.  Hope you enjoy it!” But we’ve known each other for long enough and talk nearly every day so I can just say some silly thing to her.

While it looks “better” (why I’d tried it out was someone had told me to send resumes as pdfs instead of docxs (unless otherwise asked) because it looks “more professional”) I am not sure if pdf is a more optimal reading format for a story than docx.

I haven’t heard back from her yet about the story, because she’s busy with her job and her life of course.  But sometimes I wonder if when something is sent as a digital document, it’s just easy to forget about it, as more and more emails pile up on top of that email.