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

[zellieh]

I use Scrivener, and then manually back-up to a memory stick. I was going to use Dropbox, but the Scrivener site said that Dropbox sometimes re-orders your files & folders according to it's own rules, and that can disrupt the way Scrivener works, so it's good for backups but can cause problems if your try to work off of those files.

Oh, I also wanted to point you at a wonderful series of posts I just found on the Guardian website, How To Write A Novel In 30 Days. This is the first post, which links to worksheets you can use to help you with the process:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/20/how-to-write-preliminary-outline

And my perennial favourite, How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words A Day To 10,000 Words A Day:

http://thisblogisaploy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html

[ladyseishou]

I'm a Scrivener fan as well! And thanks very much for the links! Next on my to read list!