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Back up your work!

A friend in Portland, Oregon sent me this sad story about a writer who lost all of her work when her car was broken into:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/08/rose_city_bummer_typewritten_m.html#incart_river

She’s offering a good cash reward for the return of her work, so let’s hope that she sees it again.

I back-up my work in half-a-dozen places, including Google Drive – a free cloud storage service. Many writers have lost their manuscripts – which qualifies as the ultimate rewrite, I guess.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/23/1000-novels-lost-manuscripts

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