This is a small quick post to warn you of the dangers of not backing up your work. We've all been told about this time and again, but somehow something that should be straight forward still seems to catch people out, myself included.
I had recently been having a little trouble with writers block, not in the sense that I didn't know what to write, more that I couldn't manage to get what I wanted to say written in the way I wanted it to be told.
After having this trouble for a little while, I woke up one day with the exact sentence in my head that would spark off a creative flow.
I rushed to the computer where an outpouring of creativity followed and in my rush I didn't take the time to back up my work as these creative moments need to be caught while at the peak of their outpouring, don't they?
Well yes they do, but it's also no good if you don't back up this work. If you loose all the work you've just spent hours creating and crafting, your creative outburst will have been for nothing.
Once my computer failed and I realised that my work was not backed up, the horror and fear was unbelievable, and most of all I felt like and idiot because I should have known better.
On this occasion I managed to get my work back from complete disaster but it did scare me into always backing up work from now on.
Don't say you weren't warned!
