WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 27 -- Thursday

[linaewen]

Hello on Thursday!  What kind of a writing day has it been today -- or yesterday, if today hasn't gotten going yet?

•     I thought about my fic once or twice
•     I wrote
•     I did some planning and/or research
•     I edited
•     I've sent my fic off to my beta
•     I posted today!
•     I'm taking a break
•     I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

Thursday Discussion:  How do you back up your work?  Have you ever lost anything important to your story because you hadn't saved or backed up properly?

Comments

[linaewen]

I wrote yesterday! I ignored all the stuff I could have done and chose to concentrate on writing instead, and thus whipped up a 540 word one shot that is due for a challenge this weekend. Then I spent a couple of hours wrestling with the timeline of a WIP that needs major editing because it is all messed up time-wise. Got a good grip on what needs fixing now, so I can move forward.

I have a folder of my writing on my computer, which is backed up to a backup drive regularly, as well as to a flash drive. I also have copies of what I am currently working on in Dropbox so I have access to my most recent writing. I'm thinking of adding another backup source but haven't decided which one I want to use as yet. I did almost lose something vital back in the days of floppy disks. My laptop computer suddenly started to fail, and I forced it to save a story I was working on a bit at a time onto a floppy disk, which also then started to fail when I transferred it to another computer. But I managed to get enough of the story saved that I was able to continue it the way I wanted to. After that, I've been pretty careful about backing up.

[creascendo]

Thought about my fic, and wrote quite a bit. I wanted to research before I started on this new project, but skipped it this time; I tend to get bogged down in research and use it as an excuse not to write.

So far it's going better than I expected. \o/


Yes, I've lost things years ago when both my computer and external hard drive died within a week. *facepalm*