Today I started these entries in a new document in Word, as I’ve been doing now for the past couple months to separate the months’entries and make it easier to type right in without scrolling all the way to the bottom—last month, through 50 pages.
All told, I’ve written 472 posts, near 100,000 words, 187 pages single-spaced in Word. It’s only been four months and seems like a lot, but then, five years ago I wrote a novel in three months that was 190,000 words—about half of which need to be cut out. Someday I’ll pick it back up, read it, and most likely start it all over again from scratch because from what I remember of it, the writing style would make me cringe today. I may be just as prolific, but I’m sure not who I was five years ago.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
That’s an amazing amount of words, and everyone of them wonderful. The other day I realized that I had no back of my blog posts. Not too much smart. Must Do Something.
Thanks Loretta. And yes, you must definitely find a way to save your words because your writing is beautiful, and many of your posts are little insights into your life that will become very meaningful to your family, as well as excellent potential for publication.
I hate to admit this, but since everyone already knows I’m pretty anal about things, I usually type in Word first, then cut and paste into Spinning. Then, (and this is the part I haven’t admitted before) I go to the Spinning website and copy and paste the day’s postings back into another different Word document. This is something you can do, although it is time-consuming. But I’ll tell you, I almost lost everything today and I’m sure glad I have it saved, along with the info on the templates, and I could have reconstructed it at least.
I’m sure there’s an easier way, but all I’ve seen so far is to pay for it on a server.
that is a lot of work for preservation and archiving purposes, but the word doc does make sense as a backup…it is easier to type in word too…i may have to start following some of your leads on that…k