Back-ups
Last year, I lost the entire manuscript of my non-fiction book. Why? Because I was too focused on writing it to create a solid back-up procedure. So I rewrote the entire thing in a ridiculously short amount of time. Since then, I began backing my work up on a cool website: drop.io.
Drop.io allows you to store 100 MB per drop for free, and you can have more than one drop. You can increase the size of your drop(s) for a few dollars, but with the ability to set up multiple drops, it is not completely necessary unless you have files that are larger than 100 MB. You can password-protect your drops. And, you can use drops to share files with your critique partner(s) or kind friends who agree to read your stories.
You can and should also back up on a second hard drive or partition, but having an online backup will provide an extra layer of protection, in case your computer and second hard drive are both destroyed.
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