How Do You Save Your Work?
This is a picture of my jump drive that I snapped while moving my laptop.
*sigh*
On it, I transported poetry files back and forth between work and home.
*big sigh*
The good news is that I used this as my backup so I should be able to recreate the files that I lost. But I still have this sick feeling that I may have lost a thing or two that can't be replaced.
This unfortunate incident got me wondering how and what other writers save. I tend to use a jump drive and my computer's hard drive as my primary storage for my work, saving a final copy and maybe the previous version in case I need to refer to something. I also like to have hard copy around, especially when it comes to my poetry manuscript. I save copies on poems both good and bad ( you never know when you can resurrect a stanza from the dead), resumes, writing samples, and the occasional blog post.
So how do you save your work? Are you a pack rat who saves copies, or can you keep your electronic files in good working order? Do you save blog posts? Do you save all of your journals? (I do.)
How do you know what to keep and what to let go?
Comments
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I was the same way, handwriting everything. But I don't consider a poem finished until it's typed.
Jim, 300 poems? That's incredible!
I am not as good at backing up my files as I should be. I do email things to myself quite often and I keep hard copies of really big papers of importance. I have all of my blog posts saved on Word...