Brinatello wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">~I'm not sure what exactly you did here, Brina, but I totally agree with the principle-BACK UP yer files! When my last ill-fated comp was stariting to fritz out I uploaded a bunch of stuff to my website just to store it there. The next morning the computer refused to boot, even with the rescue disc. I lost some stuff, but thank goodness not everything!Heya,I'm not sure if these words of wisdom have been passed on when creating a TMNT story but here's one mistake you should never do:Overwrite chapters!!!!!When it says if you want to overwrite, don't do it! Just make a new file for it if you're not sure you want to delete it or create an outtake file of deleted scenes. I began writing quite a bit of stuff, saving it in certain chapters. When I started to add events beforehand, I started pushing the first scenes further ahead into higher numbers of chapters, somehow doubling my text during the move. I did copy/paste, not cut/paste. Big oops. Thinking I was deleting text I already saved into another file, I removed a very large chunk of the story.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">~Absolutely! You never know when you might decide you want to use that one little phrase or idea.<snip>Oh, and one more thing, whatever you write but may not want to keep, KEEP IT ANYWAY! You never know in the future! Disk back-up is not a bad idea, either.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">~Awww..that sucks. But ya know, the chapter I lost back then, the fifth and final chapter to something that's been way long overdue, turned out better I think the second time around. I just started remembering bits of the scene, and phrases, and jotting them down, and pretty soon I had it reassembled. So don't give up hope!Now, at the moment, I'm not sure if I can sit here and think over what I've previously written. It's too depressing to do.
~GW...manic file backer upper...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Brinatello *sob* :(
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