Friendly Suggestion: Always keep two copies of a story!
I just wanted to offer everyone a friendly tip today -- in following with our Creative writing section rules found HERE. Any story which does not follow the rules may be removed without notice, to prevent you losing your only copy of your work I strongly suggest you keep a hard copy, or a copy of it on the computer else where.
You also never know what will happen with computers & technology. It is always a good idea to have a copy somewhere else just in case your computer will not work, or the forums loose it by chance, or even if you loose the notebook you may have it on.
Have fun & stay creative!
Re: Friendly Suggestion: Always keep two copies of a story!
Great Idea! Thanks! I'm going to go keep a copy of it right now!
Good idea. I'll try it.
I'm always scared about losing my story; I only have my stories on WI and a USB stick thats like an inch (no joke) long. Crosses fingers I won't lose it!
That's an awesome tip! Thank you so much Miss G!
This happened to me just today. I had used my flash drive on a Mac (the documents were only on the flash drive) and when I tried to open my documents on my computer (a Windows), the letters completely changed into some weird foreign language! Luckily I have a friend who's a computer expert, and he fixed it, but now I'm going to save all my documents on my computer, my email account, my flash drive, and a back up disk. You can never be too safe. I learned that the hard way.
Last edited by Iamwebkinzfan; 07-06-2010 at 03:43 PM..
Thanks, and no worries, I do. I alwats write my WI stories on my computer and then copy and paste onto WI. Plus, this way I can use spell check and what not.