Every year, my heart breaks to see the posts of people who lose their novel. But I'm not just typing out of the goodness of my heart -- all y'alls are gonna help us achieve good "Regional word counts".
Please, make backups.
Please.
* Mail to yourself (preferably, to two different accounts, or from one account to the other)
* Use Google Docs, private blog posts or some other web-based documentation system.
* Backup to a USB key, iPod or some other portable USB mass storage device.
Backup frequently. Keep all the versions of the backup -- don't step over it. Backup at least once a day.
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'07 - Digital Watches (Won!)
'08 - Digital Watches 2 - Spells (working title) (won)
50,063 / 50,000
Okt 31, 2009 - 00 16
Yes, please back up everyone! All your normal files too. External harddrives are the awesome too.
For those of you all who hand write novels (please tell me I'm not the only one!), a good idea is to scan a copy of your pages every couple of days and then do all of the stuff that moshez suggested "D
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Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
Yuu_tan.InsaneJournal.com
78,280 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 02 34
And a cautionary tale to increase the impact of the message: I lost last year's novel. After NaNo was over (thank goodness for small favors) but nevertheless it was not fun. Be paranoid!
----------NaNo '08 - Triad: A Tale of Somnium (Won!)
NaNo '09 - Lessons in Falling, Lessons in Flying