Acceptance thread

[subie09lega]

And I thought I was a little OCD.

Having spent several years in graphic design, I overdue it a bit with backing things up. Every time I touch a story, I use a copy and save the old one. I save every email and otherwise from every place that story touches. I keep everything on a USB drive and have it cloned weekly. Then daily I have it automatically saved to Apple's Time Machine (externally). And then I do monthly backups to DVD's, one copy for local purposes and another for the firesafe. Even with al of that redundancy I've lost stuff. But far fewer than I would have if I didn't do all of that. Oh, and although Word has an autosave and file recovery should you crash, I save every few minutes.

[ozmosis7]

Having spent several years in graphic design, I overdue it a bit with backing things up. Every time I touch a story, I use a copy and save the old one. I save every email and otherwise from every place that story touches. I keep everything on a USB drive and have it cloned weekly. Then daily I have it automatically saved to Apple's Time Machine (externally). And then I do monthly backups to DVD's, one copy for local purposes and another for the firesafe. Even with al of that redundancy I've lost stuff. But far fewer than I would have if I didn't do all of that. Oh, and although Word has an autosave and file recovery should you crash, I save every few minutes.

[subie09lega]

I worked with a lady who taught me a valuable lesson - save often, to which I add - backup often to external storage. She had a post-it on her monitor "SAVE OFTEN". I thought it was kind of silly until I lost stuff. Ctrl-S is my longtime friend. It's not a matter of if your hard drive fails but when. Sad but true.

[Randy D. Rubin]

It sucks when that happens. I've had it happen to me twice. Best Buy has people who can retrieve it. I think I paid eighty bucks. I had over a hundred stories on mine so I'd have sent mine to Langley CIA HQ to retrieve mine. They say that costs three thousand. I'm still retyping old stories into my new hard drive in between new story ideas. Any writer can empathize when you lose something you were really proud of. Keep at it, Terry. Don't let it set you back or get you down. Write like you have to pay bills with it, brother. I'm just about finished with my Warlock story. Then I have a Rats story and a Minotaur story in my head clawing to get out. No rest for the wicked writer. Can't seem to shake this bronchitis thing I've had now for two weeks. The incessant coughing wears me down. Other than that, I'm good. Take care and if you need me I'm here or on my latest addiction, Facebook.

[TerryE]

Been good. About to get back into my Nanowrimo story. The computer just crashed, and it looks like I lost the last 8-10 pages, unless I can find someone to recover the hard drive. I'm sure I can recreate the story, but I was pretty happy with the last section I had finished.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Thanks Terry. Are you working on anything of late? How've you been?

[TerryE]

Congrats, buddy! Way to go!

[Randy D. Rubin]

Thank you all my friends.

[C.W. LaSart]

Congrats Randy!

[ozmosis7]

Congrats, Randi!

[Michael Wehunt]

Congrats, Randy! Nicely done. That's interesting that you learned of your acceptance via Facebook.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Thanks Squire. Love me some Scooby Doobs.

[srboone]

Congratulations, Randy!

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Have a snack to celebrate...

[Randy D. Rubin]

Just by accident I was searching Facebook and found out that my short story, The Pumpkin Patch has made it into Tortured souls Vol II By Scarlett Rivers Press. Thank you to all involved. I'm so elated to be a part of this. All the glory goes to the lord God in heaven, my writing partner. Yabba and Dabba and Molly Hawkin Do.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Okay that place I was talking about in the other thread is called DarkMarkets.com and it looks to be as valuable as The Horror Tree or Ralan.