Check-in June 5

[insignia]

This is my second attempt to post this ._.

Attention! Due to computer issues I may not be able to fulfil my duties this week. If someone else wants to take over that would be awesome.

Now, what have you been doing today? Did you make progress with your stories (any kind of progress), or did you take a break to do something else?

Discussion: Are your projects properly backed up? Have you ever lost one to hard drive failure? (Mine are fine, thank you.)

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[rhi]

Oh, man, thank goodness yours are fine! And yes, I've lost one to what turned into hard drive failure. (It started with Word flickering and then vanishing.)

As for progress, I have spent the day noodling on the internet and working on a challenge I'm co-running. There needs to be writing, but it might be later.

[lilly_c]

I'm doing check-in post next week, if you still computer issues, PM me and I'll do a couple of extra days (if that helps at all.)

Did nothing yesterday (in my timezone) but I was in Inverness all day and haven't been home long. I'm taking today as it comes as I've more travel planned. I will be finding some time to post more new fic this week though, I want them off my USB and on my comm.

I've not had a hard-drive fail (yet *knock wood*) but I have had a USB fail where I've saved my work and tried opening the file later only to get the dreaded file corrupted message. Now I save all my fic on 3 file formats just in case that happens again.

[wintergrey]

I can take over this week if you like. :)

[linaewen]

I spent some extended time doing some fine-tuning on my chapter outline, and then the day got away from me -- but tomorrow I have a quiet day and it will be devoted to writing!

I was once in the middle of a project when my computer hard drive started to go, but since it was going slowly, I was able to back it up what I needed in time. I also had a huge fright once when my computer was scrambled but all my data was recovered, whew! Since then, I've installed a back up program and save all my projects in several different places, so as to avoid any future scares or losses.

[keiji_miashin]

I picked up an old project that I've left gathering dust for a long time. Streamlining the overarching story and actually getting outlines done. It's actually two stories (set in different times) that I hope to eventually start publishing simultaneously. The idea, or at the moment the exercise, is to write it in such a way that the two stories intertwine with each other. That is to say, you can read one and it would still be a good fic, but if you read both at the same time you noticed little details or have moments like 'oh that's why xyz,' or 'that's what happened to abc.'

I've never had any catastrophic loss of data, but that's more because I've always been so paranoid about it that I've got anything of any true importance backed up on my hotmail skydrive.

[bay_alexison]

I think I'll be taking a break since my day today has been a busy one--work, voting (California primaries today), and getting laundry done that I still need to finish folding the clothes. :x I still have a bit more time, so I might look over one of my auction fics to see how I'll end the story, but bleh not feeling to do any writerly stuff at the moment.

I usually back my stories up either in my flashdrive or Dropbox. LOL just recently the hard drive from my old computer burned out, but luckily I have my work saved in my flashdrive and Dropbox so I didn't lose any of my WIP stories.

[electric_butterfly]

All I've been doing is thinking of Dragon Quest VIII bunnies, including some of "Eight" driving around in a Jeep with Angelo. I just never seem to know which "bunny" to deal with or where to begin even if I choose a bunny.

This isn't just DQ8 either. :/

[lullabymoon]

I've been hit by the ick, so I didn't get my edits done like I had planned. More hopeful for today though.