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Need to know info on saving your manuscript Editor's Notes 110 November 15, 2011 |
Hello, how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. --Nicholas Mosley In this issue: 1. How and why to save your manuscript 2. Tickled my funnybone 3. Interesting Web site ========== 1. How and why to save your manuscript First, the obvious: Save your manuscript often as you type, and keep a back up copy. This becomes easier with technology. One reason I love my MacBook Pro is that with a second drive attached, it is backing up my work every hour, so even if my hard drive crashes, I have hourly versions of my work. This is automated, so I don't even have to think about it. I do, however, recommend saving your work at least each time you start a new page and each time you make a revision. This is a case of do as I say, and not as I sometimes do. I've lost good ideas a few times when the little dialogue box pops up telling me that Word has shut down for some reason. Sometimes I get my new work back. Often I don't. And sometimes my great idea, freshly committed to the brain of my computer, completely eludes me forever once the digital version is gone. So, nag, nag, nag, save often and back up to some system external to your computer. That's the old bit. Here are things your word processor can do for you that you may not know or use.
2.Tickled my funnybone Inoculatte : To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. =========== 3. Interesting Web site An inspiration to write for only ten minutes. For some,that's all it takes to break through writer's block. http://writeforten.com/ =========== For more interaction with me and other writers (and links to written bloopers that will make you laugh out loud), join Writer's Helper Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WritersHelperEditor =========== If you know a writer who would appreciate receiving Editor's Notes, forward this issue. If someone has passed this on to you, you can get your own free subscription by signing up at https://www.writershelper.com/newsletter.html |
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