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shades of grey:
i keep it all on two hardrives so if one goes kablooie...

Aakaakaak:
I'm pretty sure that's not permitted with them, but I'll definitely have to look into it. Thanks for the warning shot SVB.


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Kablooie...
Yeah, good idea. I was thinking about printing stuff off, but putting it on another hard drive, or even a flash drive might be wise of me instead.

Kali:
Backup-wise, I email the document to myself once a day at the end of the day's writing.  To two different email addresses, for paranoia's sake.  Once a week, I backup the folder to a thumb drive.

You can never have too many backups.

Starbeam:

--- Quote from: Kali on June 02, 2010, 06:06:27 PM ---I wouldn't give them the character sheets, or anything other than what I plan on having printed.  Your readers won't have access to them, right?  So you want your beta readers judging just on what the reader will experience.  They're the ones who'll tell you that they don't understand why Betty is so terrified of chairs, or what Burt means when he refers to "the German Shepherd incident" and that's how you'll know you haven't done a good job explaining things in the text.

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Yeah, pretty much this.  I would also suggest giving questions/suggestions for things to watch out for, if there's anything you know you have problems with, or think might not quite come across as you want.


--- Quote from: aakaakaak on June 02, 2010, 06:14:44 PM ---Okies. Cool beans.

The German Shepard Incident is a Mouse story waiting to be written.

Also, anybody else using Google Docs to organize with? I just started playing with it yesterday.

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I looked into Google Docs once, but decided that I use too much stuff already.  I have 2 writing specific programs, Mac equivalent of Word, and to keep stuff with me, the notes app that I can sync between my Mac and iPod.  And a notebook, flash drive, and printed copy.

svb1972:
Stephen Brust for example uses Emacs for all his writing needs :)

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