Back Up EVERYTHING

Here's what I do to back up everything I write.  It's so easy.  I insert a flash drive in the USB port of my MacBook, and I save on it whatever I've been working on.  Every day.  I mean, EVERY DAY.

In a blog post I read earlier this year, a favorite writer of mine wrote his computer had gone nuts, and he'd lost everything he'd been working on.  EVERYTHING.  Think about that.  No, I mean think about it.  Think about what it would be to be him, how he felt after that happened.  I'd have done myself in, I swear.  I don't know how I would have gotten on with my life.  Lose the entire novel I've been working on for three years?  What would be the point of going on?

So, if you don't already have one, get one.  Flash drives are so cheap now.  You don't even need one with a large capacity.  Writing takes up little space.  Insert that puppy into your computer at the end of every writing session, WITHOUT FAIL, and back up what you're working on.  DO IT.

Someday, you'll be happy you did.