NaNoWriMo 2012 - Day 2

[ladyseishou]

Day 2 - 28 days remaining


The maker of a sentence launches out into the
infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson






Today's word count is 3,334! And because it's Friday, let's talk about backing up those words... It's not too early to think about it, Nano Writer! So what's your method of choice? Flash drive? Cloud drive? E-mail? Make it a habit now and you'll never have to worry about losing your work!

Questions? Comments? Excerpts to share? It's all good! So keep writing!

Comments

[ladyseishou]

If you have some sort of search and replace command for your word processor, you're good to go. Just search for wildcards or type in the alphabet or some subset (I find that replacing all the vowels with "x" makes for a pretty scrambled looking document) and replace said letters with "x" (or your letter of choice).

Of course please use a COPY of your work and give it a very obvious name like "My Novel - SCRAMBLED" so you never accidentally scramble your good copy.

Some word processors will do this for you :-) I know that Scrivener will do it during the compile.

[iosonochesono]

Thanks! I tried it on an unsaved copy of one of the chapters. I'd be unlikely to lose a whole copy because I break everything up into chapters, flashbacks, and then also the original story... I have a few ways of keeping the data backed up. (Plus, I have several copies of the folder on both my computer, flash drive, my other computer.)

It took a while but it worked - the example has nothing but Zs now hahaha.

[ladyseishou]

Zzzz! ;-)