ADVICE FROM FEBRUARY 2015
Never Lose Your Writing—Articles and Books Are Just Too Important!
By M. L. Anderson
Save. Save. Save again. This can’t be repeated often enough. Once your file is gone, maybe, just maybe, it can be retrieved. But if it can’t, what do you do? Cry? That may be the only thing left. So, to prevent crying your life away, save, save, and save again.
- Save it to Google Drive or Carbonite (some cost) or other back-up site in the cloud (more to come in a future article, but you can figure it out).
- Save it on your hard drive then: Save it somewhere else on your hard drive. (Not enough. Computer crashes or is lost or stolen? It’s still gone.)
- Save it on a CD (are those even around anymore?)
- Save it on a “thumb drive” and put that somewhere safe.
- Save it then email it to yourself. What was that last suggestion? Email it to whom? Yourself? Yes.
Save it frequently while working on it, then every week or two, or every time you work extensively, add more, or edit your story, save it and email it to yourself … or even to a trusted relative or friend.
That way, if your computer goes Kaput!, you can open your email or contact your go-to person, and retrieve it. You don’t have to rent space in the “cloud” or buy expensive equipment or pay for backups that are out there somewhere.
Just email it to yourself.
Done. Not lost forever.
Still available.
Re-found.
Continue with story or article.
Smile.
Continue with story or article.
Smile
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