Hi there, writers,
Well, I've made my first dumb mistake of 2019.
After spending much of Saturday and Sunday writing Chapter 1 of my novel in advance of the deadline for my new writing group, I finished it on Monday afternoon, a robust 2,500 words.
I clicked good-ol' ctrl+s to save it to my desktop and then, smiling and happy, shut off my laptop.
It never restarted. And it never will.
Well, no BFD, David: surely you saved your new chapter to the cloud.
Wait, what's the cloud?
Well, Google Drive then, or Dropbox? Or at the very least, you emailed it to yourself?
Of course I did.
Of course I didn't.
In this week's post, "Losing Your Writing, Vol. 2" (and, oh, how I wish I had learned from Vol. 1), I want to hear your tactics for backing up your work. To where do you back it up? How often?
Do you have automatic settings that do it for you? If not, how do you remind yourself?
And I want to hear your most awful anecdote about losing your writing. Let's all splash around in each other's misery.
I'm sure I'll be able to reproduce at least some of the chapter I lost. And I'll just wing the rest. Worse things have happened.
But--especially now that we have so many different and simple backup options available to us--have stupider things happened?
Anyway. I'm signing off now to go write a chapter I've already written. Wish me luck!
