So, over the weekend i booted up the laptop and got ready to edit the story i wrote two years ago, The Price of Passion.
The problem with having it been so long ago that i wrote it, i had forgotten the real conflict of the characters, the real reason they did and said things and not the surface stuff.
I knew i had notes somewhere...
Not on the laptop. Um, maybe the USB?
No! Darn. Hmm okay, on the Mac then.
Yep there they are! So i dutifully copied the folders to the USB and put them on the laptop.
Only to realise i hadn't converted the documents to .doc and couldn't open them. Doh!
Back to the Mac, convert all files.
Back to the laptop, find what i wanted and then realise my time was up.
Time for preparing dinner.
*sigh*
So my big writing tip is to keep all your writing current and updated to all your devices, laptop, USB, home computer, iPad etc. It will save you your writing time when you have to go search for it!
It may be a good idea to copy and save documents at the end of each week. Or maybe even every day if you write a lot!
Besides, it's good to know you have ALL your writing stuff backed up multiple times just in case one of your devices goes capoot! (shock horror that that should ever happen!)
Happy New year!
Yup - a most frustrating thing when you don't have your current docs cause they're on your other device ;p Good to keep it in several places (insurance against computer dying too!)
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