Day: April 19, 2013

Writing Advice - Business & the Writing Life

You Do Not Back Up Your Work Enough

I live my working life – both day-job and writing wise – off a USB stick. It’s a necessity, ’cause I’m routinely shuffling between three or four different computers depending on where I am, and I like the option of being able to pick up and work on a particular project with an absolute minimum of planning ahead. So you can imagine what a pain-in-the-arse it was when I dropped Shifty Silas the laptop last night and did this:   USB sticks are not meant to sit at that angle, you know? This one was completely dead. Fortunately for me, this wasn’t a huge deal. Silas is still working fine and I lost about an hour of work, which sucks, but isn’t as bad as it could have been. But it’s a useful reminder: back-up your work. I used to do a semi-regular post on my blog reminding everyone of this, usually timed to coincide with  the anniversary of the