Writer Tip - Avoid the Lost Work Nightmare
Posted: September 25, 2017
One of the most common pieces of advice when working on a project is to save, save, save. That's great advice to follow to avoid losing what you're working on at the moment, but the risk of losing all your electronically stored data is very real. Bad hard drives, power surges and computer glitches can all lead to the loss of stored data. Have a plan in place to make sure everything you want to save, even if it's from years ago, is protected.
Blake Atwood, writer for The Write Life, shares how to avoid losing writing.
Beware: What you’re about to read is a real-life horror story as told in
The Write Life Community Facebook group.
“Gone. ALL of it. Gone. Every old idea I ever jotted down. Gone. Every short story, script, chapters of multiple books. Gone. An entire universe of superhero ideas. Poems, short stories… gone. I have NO IDEA how it happened. None. I can reason out how I may have lost some things, but most everything was so redundantly copied in various places. Yet somehow, it is all gone.”
This is every writer’s worst nightmare.
Losing writing isn’t new
Saving our words from annihilation has been a problem that’s long plagued writers, even before computers made our writing lives so much easier (yet simultaneously more complex).
Read the entire article
How to Prevent Every Writer’s Worst Nightmare: Losing Your Work on
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