amcnh is a SAINT!!!

[vg_ford]

Thanks to her, Argus and I are back online, temporarily. This does not in any way stop me from buying a new hard drive. But she is being sweet enough to loan us a tower, so we can continue to do stuff online for this week. Thank you again, amcnh!!!!

Well, I finally got my butt in gear and actually started my NaNo. Really started. Changed a bunch on the prologue (I'm much happier with it now) and am into Chapter 1.

2,204 / 50,000 (4.4%)

Oh, and one more thing - DON'T EVER FORGET TO DO YOUR BACKUPS!!! This hard drive crash cost me 275 pages of editing. *sigh*

Talk about sucky. Oh well, now I get to start again. Blech.

Schedule for tomorrow: up at 9:30 am. Edit for an hour. Shower. Be in for work at 12:15 pm - work until midnight. Come home and edit for another hour. Then write for an hour. Then repeat - four more times.

Comments

[kim-richards.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I've lost precious time and work that way too. Glad you're back online.

[calene.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. So sorry about the lost work. I backup my WIPs at the end of every writing or editing session. It's such a simple and quick thing. Definitely worth it.

Emailing them to yourself where it's stored offsite is good. USB keys are wonderful things. Mine's a 64 MB one, nowhere near the max size nowadays, and it can hold every draft file of every work I've written X 2. This way, I can take it with me when I leave the house, and even if the house burned down and destroyed all of my computers and I couldn't access the internet, I would still be able to get to my work from someone else's compy. They're pretty cheap now, so it might be a good investment.

[vg-ford.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I'm DEFINITELY thinking of getting one. I just need to get it. Right now, I'm doing the email thing - that works too.

You know, you hear all the warnings, but you never think it can happen to you. I actually had disk backups - and now they can't be read. We think the virus corrupted them. *sigh*