vidar Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 How do you keep your stories while we wait to be able to post again to the site? I usually just write using notepad, but there has to be a way to archive your stories before or after posting to AFF Deadman, Wilde_Guess and BronxWench 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillowDarkling Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 You should always keep your stories as files on your computer. I use Word, simply because it’s what I’m used to. Wilde_Guess, BronxWench and Deadman 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vidar Posted December 13, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 That makes sense. I usually keep a folder with them. I guess I’m just anxious to post some of the new stories for others to read Deadman, Wilde_Guess and BronxWench 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiderius Price Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 Second @WillowDarkling to not rely on AFF or any other archive to retain your stories w/o incident. Keep in mind most archives, even google drive/dropbox/onedrive retain the right to *DELETE* your postings/files in their terms of service. OTOH, I’ll make copies of copies and I’m stuck wondering “which one of these is current?” Wilde_Guess and Deadman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BronxWench Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 Go by the saved date. Desiderius Price, Deadman and Wilde_Guess 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiderius Price Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 1 minute ago, BronxWench said: Go by the saved date. Had this issue when I decided to go and rework my potter story. First task, collecting them all, then I started purging the obvious duplicates. But hey, at least I didn’t lose much. (The *first* draft was, unfortunately, mostly lost—shame because that was the smuttiest too.) Deadman and Wilde_Guess 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BronxWench Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 I have copies of all my work on my hard drive, and on two separate back-up hard drives. I tend to keep all the versions, and I just date them as “Rewrite 20XX” at the end of the original title so I don’t lose my mind. InvidiaRed, Wilde_Guess and Deadman 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadman Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 I had this problem very early on and learned from it. An early story that I wrote was gone because I lost the original file. But I realized that I had it on a site so I grabbed it off them. Then the site disappeared so now I’m much more glad that I got it. Did a similar thing with Yahoo Groups before they went under. Had one or two stories that I lost the original word file, grabbed it and made sure I had it. Wilde_Guess 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiderius Price Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 26 minutes ago, BronxWench said: I have copies of all my work on my hard drive, and on two separate back-up hard drives. I tend to keep all the versions, and I just date them as “Rewrite 20XX” at the end of the original title so I don’t lose my mind. Too late, I’ve already lost my mind 🤣 Wilde_Guess and BronxWench 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeGlass Posted December 14, 2022 Report Share Posted December 14, 2022 These days, I draft all my stories in Google Docs (with each one set to save on my device as well as in the cloud). When they’re fully drafted, I move them to Word for final editing (as with WillowDarkling, Word is what I’m used to), then I post them. BronxWench and Wilde_Guess 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sessakag Posted December 14, 2022 Report Share Posted December 14, 2022 I have my work backed up in so many places nothing short of the planet exploding would make me lose a single piece of my work. I lost a story one time, years ago, and have been paranoid ever since. BronxWench, Wilde_Guess and Desiderius Price 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeGlass Posted December 14, 2022 Report Share Posted December 14, 2022 2 hours ago, Sessakag said: I have my work backed up in so many places nothing short of the planet exploding would make me lose a single piece of my work. I lost a story one time, years ago, and have been paranoid ever since. Yeah, I lost one many years ago, too. The worst part was that it was the middle story of a trilogy. Desiderius Price, Wilde_Guess, Sessakag and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sessakag Posted December 14, 2022 Report Share Posted December 14, 2022 1 hour ago, GeorgeGlass said: Yeah, I lost one many years ago, too. The worst part was that it was the middle story of a trilogy. You have my sincerest condolences. BronxWench and Wilde_Guess 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeGlass Posted December 14, 2022 Report Share Posted December 14, 2022 7 hours ago, Sessakag said: You have my sincerest condolences. Thanks. At least it wasn’t that long a story. And I learned my lesson about “storing” stories in a Yahoo group. Wilde_Guess, BronxWench and Sessakag 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvidiaRed Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 On 12/13/2022 at 9:50 AM, WillowDarkling said: You should always keep your stories as files on your computer. I use Word, simply because it’s what I’m used to. I use word and Grammarly and have a portable hard-drive. My work should survive everything but a EMP. BronxWench 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desiderius Price Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 5 hours ago, InvidiaRed said: I use word and Grammarly and have a portable hard-drive. My work should survive everything but a EMP. 🧨 (we need a mushroom-cloud emoji...) My way is different because… well, I have a tendency to turn problems into software projects as well. That’s why I write my stories as text files, annotating with a simple format what’s what (ie styles, version). When I want to post, I run the software, telling it what which version I want (clean vs explicit for my potter story), which archive I’m posting to (FFN, AO3, or AFF), and it’ll generate HTML files suitable for posting. Being a programming geek, I use a “makefile” to remember the command line options to be lazy/consistent. Bit more complex than most, but I do like the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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