Finally got a chance to check into the files I lost when the laptop crashed.

[apocalypsos]

The Hollow Girl -- It was only three chapters, and I sent it to two people so it wasn't like I couldn't get them again, but then Gmail ate, like, four weeks of emails and it took digging through the trash folder to find them.

The Grand Prize Winner -- Well, the fact that I've barely touched it in the past few months is probably a good thing now. The file I sent to my email just in case is missing about seven thousand words but all of the finished chapters are there, and luckily I still have the outline with the printouts of what I had written for the rest of it up on my wall. So I've got a bit of typing to do in the future but it's not going to end up being too terrible to fix, I don't think.

Nearly Departed -- All of the overtime exhausted the crap out of me (exactly like Jess and I said it probably would the last day of work) so I've only just gotten the amount of words done that I had done before the computer crashed, which was pretty much nothing. On the plus side, I have Monday and Tuesday off and during the day Wednesday to beef up. So I'm just going to go on Write or Die those two days and do hour-long sessions on kamikaze mode.

As for the Books of Boggs and the original draft of Dead Men in Dark Suits and all of the stuff that I haven't touched in months, they're all on my flash drive, so no worries there, thank God.

*sigh* I really need a new fucking laptop. Sheesh.

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[florahart]

Back up the files on your flash drive, if you haven't. A few weeks ago, K1's flash drive went completely nuts while he was reinstalling his OS, which meant the copy on his hard drive went gone; there were some hours of serious panic as his flash drive is, oh, all of his schoolwork. Re covered stuff, but I advised him to make friends with googledocs or something before his next reformat.

[ralob.livejournal.com]

A good idea would also to get a free account at box.net or something and put all our flash drive files on there just in case the flash drive goes up. They are so fragile and easy to corrupt that it can't hurt to have another backup.